Billy Idol

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Yes! Allegedly the inspiration for Spike on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, too. Sadly also homophobic.

Would've let him abuse me physically and mentally and leave me in a heap on the side of the road after

R2 So, say what now?!

I liked a lot of his songs and thought he had a wonderfully rich, deep voice.

I had a uncle, friend of my mom's who swears on the bible he had a sexual encounter with him in NYC during the early 80s.

3 legs and a lightsaber, R1?

Billy was much hotter than his son turned out to be.

I have and like one of his big hits "To Be A Lover".

Rebel Yell is a great album.

Interesting the hit version of Mony Mony was a live version.

The hit single. R11

No, not a fan. Glad you asked.

I was totally in lust with him.

Billy Idol, born in England, is 62 now.

Hot as fuck back in the day. Dripped sex from every pore. He still has it at 62. Jesus I'm old. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?! I demand a recount.

Billy and Madonna

Don't ruin it R18!

He is most definitely not homophobic. Though he may have done a little too much of the macho rocker thing to keep his career going in the US.

I believe it R6. He came on to a mate of mine years ago.

I swear I read an artilce about him back in the 80's, in something like Rolling Stone, where he said it was fun to have a "bloke" every now and then. I was surpirsed he was open about it, and I'm pretty sure that is what he said.

I wonder what happened to his girlfriend Peri. I loved her in his Behind the Music

Yes. I am a fan. He was something back in the day.

If ever I'm feeling nostalgic, all I have to do is play this song. It brings back so many memories of college, there are just a few songs that can really do that for me, it's just like a time machine.

He was sex on wheels. Any full frontals? He must be nice and intact.

Tired Pop Cultural Name-dropping Troll strikes again!

He was the sexiest thing on TV, for a long time. I think he sort of enjoys his notoriety now.

Eyes Without a Face is such a beautiful, haunting song.

Loved Cradle of Love, too.

R18 hah. Billy had everything Madonna doesn't have. Talent, songwriting ability, a great voice, prolly a better dancer, could probably act a million times better. Also Billy was legit good looking and looked great as a blond.

Unfortunately he didn't have staying power after 1990.

Who cares, he had his 15 minutes and was great.

OMG! R16’s photo looks just like my grandfather, when he’s yelling “Get off my lawn!!”

He made me realize I was gay

He was famously bisexual, why'd he be homophobic? Silly twat, trix are for kids.

Also most of 80s new wave sucks ass/has aged terribly. Most of Idol's music still sounds awesome even today. Compared to crap like Duran Duran, New Order, or Culture Club. Yuck. His Cyber Punk album failed but had a few awesome songs on it.

Fuck he was hot! Sure even his straight-boy followers must’ve felt an odd stirring in their nether regions over him occasionally - and surprised he’s not got a bigger gay following - since he’s like the hottest twink/trade ever...

There was a really hot drawing of him in one of those old collections of gay comics years ago. Clearly the gay artist who did it was obsessed! So it was two panels - pencil sketch - and the first one was him and one of his band members both drawn looking young and adolescent - with his band made having jerked him off and splooge everywhere - called billy’s first load. The second panel was the both of them aged to as they were in the late eighties - both in stage outfits and shooting their wads together - and it was called billy’s 20,000th load. At least I think that was the number! Such hot, dirty little sketches! I haven’t thought of them for years - will hafta google and see if they’re online anywhere

As a kid, I remember seeing the video where he humped the floor @3:05 and I remember thinking "OMG, what a naughty pervert", but being kind of turned on at the same time.

R36 here again - the image I was taking about was in one of the Meatmen gay comic anthologies - but can’t seem to find that image online :(

Idol's guitarist was one of the greats. Steve Stevens gets huge credit for Idol's success.

Ah ok - thanks R39! - just googled Stevens - and he was the guy in the jerking-off sketches with idol. God I wish I could find them online and share!

[quote] Billy Idol had a great run of hit songs with Eyes Without a Face, Dancing With Myself, Catch My Fall, Rebel Yell.

Actually, of the songs you mentioned, only Eyes Without a Face would qualify as a hit. None of the others even made it into the Top 40 in the U.S. Dancing With Myself didn't even make it into the Top 100. Billy Idol's songs get played a lot today, more so than most '80s artists, and judging by that, you would think that they were all huge hits back in the 1980s. But most of them weren't. His videos were popular on MTV, but his early songs seem to get more radio airplay today than they ever did in the '80s.

Being on Billboard 100 means nothing. The past 10 years have been nothing but crap. Most of Idol's 80s songs are awesome.

Back in the day I was a fan.

My oh my, I do believe DataLounge and I have finally found a man we agree on.

Now he’s a Trump nut.

No? Really?!? Well he did get his head rattled in that bike wreck.

He started out as a punk rocker in Generation X. I was quite the fan and still remember their hit song Ready, Steady Go.

I had a poster of him on my wall. He was sooo hot. I'd always heard he was 'fluid' even back in high school in the 80s when that term didn't exist. His visual image seemed as much for gay boys as for girls.

He's legendary, but he's definitely not a better dancer than Madonna.

It always cracked me up that he had a song with the lyric "I forgot to be a lover". I thought I must have misheard but no, that really is the lyric.

His hit songs are a lot better than they need to be.

He’s re-issuing a bunch of old hits and is touring. He’s very active on Instagram these days.

group of hot pictures

I think the aerobics class industry of the 90s exsited only for Billy Idol

100 punks by Generation X was tremendous.

He was so pretty.

Dancing with myself right now! This thread is tremendous!

[quote]Actually, of the songs you mentioned, only Eyes Without a Face would qualify as a hit. None of the others even made it into the Top 40 in the U.S. Dancing With Myself didn't even make it into the Top 100.

Wow, I'm very surprised to hear that. I was a kid back in the 80s and I remember hearing all of Idol's songs on the radio all the time. Crazy that most weren't Billboard hits back then.

Catch My Fall was played in Sixteen Candles

Idol was immensely popular in Latin America in the 80s, the world is more than the US Charts. Dancing with Myself, Eyes without a Face and Sweet Sixteen are still staples of wedding parties to this day.

thank you for the pic OP and R2. I don't think I've ever seen those. Loved him. Still love him.

Hot In The City original video 1982. It's blurry but still it takes you back.

He was absolutely beautiful. I could have eaten that ass for days.

The backwards ass pic in the OP post was published in Rolling Stone magazine in the 80s. My friend who is now married with kids asked if he could have it - the picture not the magazine. I always assumed you went home and jerked off to it.

I like his version of L.A. Woman more than the Doors. Classic 80s Rocker.

Fond memories of tooting and fucking under the Nagel to Billy. Later.

Normally it's hard for me to picture two famous people having sex, but I can visualize the entire scene of Billy fucking Downtown Julie Brown and it makes me feel vomitous.

“Dancing with myself” is one of the greatest pop songs from that era. He was never punk, but he was one of the first to mix punk aesthetics and sounds with pop, no?

Billy & Vanity

Shame about the flat ass

He made such a pretty mess on my dress

Yes. And like r57, I remember all of those songs. They weren’t hits? They were on the radio and played at all the boarding school dances.

The girl from the "Cradle of Love" video gave me my first inkling that I might be a lesbian. As a kid, I remember feeling aroused and ashamed the first time I saw it on MTV. The part that stuck with me for years afterward was the shot her crawling across the floor, moving up the guy's body, grabbing him by the tie, and kissing him. I wanted a girl to crawl across the floor to me like that.

It starts at 4:27 in the linked video.

In L.A. Woman he had Marilyn in her iconic white dress crucified on a telephone poll.

He actually dated former ET hostess Leeza Gibbons back in the mid-80's.

Tried an interweb search of photos of the two of them together (she in her leather-inspired outfits, complemented by her blonde-spikey hair of the era); but for some mysterious reason, the interweb has been scrubbed of such photos.

(Shocker)

He seemed like a nasty, kinky piece of work. So, yes, I thought he was hot.

Billy Idle

Eyes Without A Face is one of the best songs of the 80s. I still love it.

R41 what are you talking about? He had plenty of top 40 songs. Hot In the City #23, White Wedding #36, Eyes Without A Face #4, Flesh For Fantasy #29, To Be A Lover #6, Don’t Need A Gun #37, Sweet Sixteen #20, and bigger hits than Eyes Without A Face with Mony Mony a #1 and Cradle of Love hitting #2. Googling Billboard Billy Idol chart history is your friend.

I confuse him with Adam Ant.

I thought Billy Idol and Red Skelton were the same person

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Billy was okay. I found young Sting infinitely hotter.

Billy Idol is now dating China Chow. I don't know much about her. Seems like a step down for Billy

R22 Perri got deported with all this immigration chaos. She has a scathing tell all hitting bookstores about the darker side of Billy Idol

[quote] [R41] what are you talking about? He had plenty of top 40 songs. Hot In the City #23, White Wedding #36, Eyes Without A Face #4, Flesh For Fantasy #29, To Be A Lover #6, Don’t Need A Gun #37, Sweet Sixteen #20, and bigger hits than Eyes Without A Face with Mony Mony a #1 and Cradle of Love hitting #2. Googling Billboard Billy Idol chart history is your friend.

I am well aware of that. And I actually linked to the Billboard chart history for Billy Idol in my post. I never said that he didn't have any Top 40 songs. I merely said that of the songs OP MENTIONED IN HIS ORIGINAL POST, only Eyes Without a Face was a hit. The other songs OP mentioned (Dancing With Myself, Catch My Fall and Rebel Yell) were not Top 40 hits. Dancing With Myself peaked at #102, Catch My Fall peaked at #50. And Rebel Yell peaked at #46. Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suit, R78.

Billy and Madonna are both great, STFU

Bill and Madonna look SO 80s in that pic, love it!

Billy Idol hits Dance/Electronic charts for the first time since 1993

Id still let Billy hit it as much as he wanted. loved him so much in the 80s and still listen to his hits.

Billy looks like shit now. Too much drugs and booze and he's probably still a cripple from the bike accidents. His kids are fug.

And he fucked so many groupies he probably has herpes. No thank you. And probably uncut. yuck!

Billy & friends

I liked him until he made his girlfriend take the fall when he was caught with crack in his hand while the couple was walking in Greenwich Village. Told the police that she had given it to him. So they arrested her and let him go free!

Looked like he had tattoos, even if he didn’t.

He was absolute perfection in "Eyes Without a Face" vid. I loved that video (in 6th grade!) and staring at his gorgeous fucking face.

He also had a nice "punk rock" body...not drug-skinny but "normal" hot.

Wow - not aging all that gracefully. Maybe a little Botox would help the forehead.

What do YOU look like R95 ??? Are you 60 ? Even as "lived in" as his face is,I bet you he'd get a lot more sex on an off day than you will in your entire life.

He was hot AF in the 80s.

I love that snarl of his. And he DOESN’T have British fangs, which is good. Got to bone Vanity and Downtown Julie Brown in their heydays. He’s lived a life.

Was he the inspiration for Keifer Sutherland’s “David” in The Lost Boys?

R98 Downtown Julie Brown had a heyday?

Ugh he aged badly

R95 As if inserting a botulism filled syringe into your face and having a bloated Cro-Magnon brow is aging gracefully.

The world did not need his ancient music redone to crappy EDM. Yuck. The new editions are horrible.

R85 yet you make it sound like he had practically no hits for those not in the know. So kindly STFU.

His [italic]Cyberpunk[/italic] (1993) sound and look didn't catch on, but personally I thought he was at his hottest...

Vanity was the hottest bitch in town when he dated her, but he was slumming with Downtown Julie Brown

[quote] yet you make it sound like he had practically no hits for those not in the know. So kindly STFU.

Only to idiots who can't read. My original post was clear. Some of his early songs went on to become '80s classics, even though they weren't big hits at the time. That's true for a lot of '80s artists. There's no harm in pointing that out.

In his early days with post punk icon Siouxsie Sioux.

Billy and Debbie Harry

Someone mentioned confusing him with Adam Ant. I never thought of that at the time as their images were so different. But I see the compaison now. Both carried the glam look very well in a masculine way. Both very hot at the time. Neither has aged too well.

I loved hot in the city. Still find his speaking voice to be insanely sexy. He has a show on xm radio (the new wave channel) a couple of times a month, I could listen to him speak endlessly. Anyhow did anyone hear about how he was fisting a woman and his arm got stuck? The story is supposedly true...oh gee verified in a datalounge thread..

Who had the hotter sex - Vanity and Billy Idol or Vanity and Adam Ant?

Billy's showing off the vaginal discharge of a freshly fucked Melissa Gilbert

[quote]Who had the hotter sex - Vanity and Billy Idol or Vanity and Adam Ant?

Vanity and Prince

R107 only morons like you would cherry pick certain songs of his in a Billy Idol thread. Why not just state his hit songs instead of choose the ones in ops start of the thread? Makes no sense. True. I misread. What’s the excuse for your dumbass?

[quote] Only morons like you would cherry pick certain songs of his in a Billy Idol thread

I didn't cherry pick certain songs. The OP did. The OP said: "Billy Idol had a great run of [bold] hit songs with Eyes Without a Face, Dancing With Myself, Catch My Fall, Rebel Yell.[/bold]" I merely pointed out that of the 4 songs OP named, only Eyes Without a Face was actually a hit on the charts, which is true. I never meant to imply that Billy Idol didn't have any hits or that he was a failure.

[quote] Why not just state his hit songs?

Because I was replying to the OP. And I included a link to the full Billy Idol discography for anyone who wanted more information.

This was good for a while but the inevitable DL slide into name calling has started.

R117 if that is the way it is, toughen up or slink away like the pussy you are.

Doesn't do it for me, but I love his producer, Keith Forsey, who is also acclaimed for producing Simple Mind's classic "Don't You Forget About Me." He started out as the drummer on Donna Summer's albums with Giorgio Moroder.

Girls! Girls!

Since White Wedding, Rebel Yell and Dancing with Myself are still played daily around the world, they would be considered hit singles.

[quote] Since White Wedding, Rebel Yell and Dancing with Myself are still played daily around the world, they would be considered hit singles.

And that's exactly the point. TODAY we consider them hit singles because they're still played all the time and they've become classic, iconic '80s songs. But at the time when they were released, they were not hit singles. It's like "Melt With You" by Modern English or "What I Like About You" by The Romantics, two other examples of songs that have become '80s classics and are played all the time on '80s radio stations even though neither song was a hit single back in the 80s.

Who gives a fuck about billboard 100. It has not been relevant in decades. People like what they like.

R110 Which British man has aged well, I can’t think of one.

The people going by "charts" and other bullshit to measure what's a "hit" or not, can go fuck themselves. Idol songs were total hits when they came out back in the day. Practically all different types of people/groups liked billy idol. I'm sure we all can apologize though for not checking with the "charts" and billboard 50 or whatever the fuck it is while we were shaking our butts to his hits.

[quote] I'm sure we all can apologize though for not checking with the "charts" and billboard 50 or whatever the fuck it is while we were shaking our butts to his hits.

I totally agree. The Billboard charts have always sucked and have never been a barometer of good music. Most of Billy Idol's early songs were far better than the shit that was topping the charts at the time. They were great songs -- they just weren't hit singles.

R126 quit your cunting. We all hate you.

Is there some official definition of "hit single?" Personally I consider something that makes the top 100 to be a hit.

Back in the 80’s a top 50 single would be considered a hit because of all the great music but now with streaming,NO way!

[quote] quit your cunting. We all hate you.

I'm not cunting, you fat whore. It all started when I made the perfectly innocent observation that many of Idol's early songs are more popular today than they were back in the early 1980s, which is true and not a criticism of Idol. Then it was cunts like you who, for reasons unknown, flew out of control. I'm done with you. So kindly fuck off.

This skinny man bore a very strong resemblance to Joanna Lumley / Patsy Stone.

I bought the new remix album; it's pretty good. His songs have aged well. I always loved "To Be a Lover".

R130 take some fentanyl, quickly now bitch.

He's hideous now. Scary looking actually

R109 OMG Billy and Debby would have made the cutest punky lil het couple ever! They are both adorable in that pic

Best outfit ever

r112 Adam Ant would have been infinitely more romantic about it than dirty boy Billy Ido.

Boy was Vanity ever the village bike back then, huh?!

Vanity got the hottest cock the 80s had to offer, God rest her soul.

R134 15 minutes of fame, a lifetime of looking like a piece of crap. Poor Billy.

I read his autobiography recently! Well...I read a few chapters. I got distracted by life and never finished it.

Lots of sex and drugs. Relentless sex and drugs. However, he is a funny articulate author. There was one story he tells about how he had just moved to NYC. No one knew who the hell he was. He was dirt broke and living on air, ambition and illicit substances.

He goes to a discotheque one night to clear his head. The DJ pops on a copy of "Dancing with Myself." People start climbing over tables and pushing him out of the way to get to the dance floor. Again, no one recognized him because he was as yet unknown in the US. It was the sign he needed to give him certainty that he was gonna make it here. I just loved that story.

I bet it just galls all you "He's so ugly now!" queens to no end to know that even today,even looking rough,he could still get millions of men and women to drop their panties in a flash. Believe that !

I don’t find him ugly — he just has a bad spray tan. I appreciate that he’s used no fillers or Botox either, he seems to be owning aging.

[quote] Which British man has aged well, I can’t think of one.

I'd dare to claim Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

Hear hear r143. I’m tired of the constant slams on the Brits. Like our fat asses age better lololol? How fucking American.

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Billy, Siouxsie and their swastika-wearing friend

OMG I just googled for potential tour dates and discovered that Billy Idol has a fucking VEGAS RESIDENCY right now

R146, that's part of The Bromley Contingent.

regarding r146. Siouxsie is wearing a rather famous Vivienne Westwood shirt.

But also the remark about the U.S. singles chart is misleading because, surprisingly, he was a albums artist, his 1st going platinum in the U.S. and the next two going double platinum. His sales also indicate he was seen as a Rock artist rather than a Pop artist.

He was bloody gorgeous. My entire summer of 1984 was defined by that Eyes Without A Face video.

A British (straight) friend told me that when he saw Generation X on stage for the first time, Billy Idol with his platinum spiked hair was mesmerizing. He said was the handsomest man he had ever seen. Billy has had some work done around his eyes, no bags there.

This is just my opinion, but there's nothing wrong with rock stars aging badly, it just shows they've lived life to the full as rockstars should.

Billy Idol and Steve Stevens made great music in the 80s

I think he only got the eyes done because he couldn't see.

Dancing with Myself would be considered a single since it was reworked from the Generation X version, and added to later albums.

Billy's First Communion

At the Sex book release party with Madonna

Looking like an anime character

In his book "Take it Like a Man", Boy George wrote about Billy Idol saying he used to float around the same clubs in London at the time and he was very beautiful and everybody wanted him. If I remember correctly he said Billy was straight but would do anyone and was often with rich men. Can anyone correct me on that? I would have to pull out the book and find the info. Maybe someone else remembers better than I do.

oh my god, he must have all kinds of stds...all the people he fucked. gross.

which neighborhood did he live in NYC?

I remember someone posted on DL some time ago about a hook-up with Billy Idol. There was something about Idol liking his feet played with and that he had the most beautiful feet the poster ever saw. Could have been the fancies of a foot fetish troll.

Billy and Joan Jett

Legend

Did he fuck Madonna?

His real name was Seymour Goldberg.

Billy at the Madonna Sex book party. He would have been much hotter to see in the book than Vanilla Ice and the switchblade lesbians

He and Madonna were supposed to have dated back in the 80s.

He is very charismatic and stood out among many other charismatic rock stars.

Popped Collar

What do you suppose his ass tasted like at his peak?

Before Smart Phones

I had this poster of him on my wall in high school. In retrospect it was REALLY gay.

R172 there is nothing gay about that at all. The 80s had hair metal and glam metal. All the straight men partook in that circus.

I meant it was gay of ME to have a glamour shot of Billy Idol on my wall.

Did he f*ck Joan Jett?

He never did it for me visually (the constant stupid sneer turned me off), but I did love his deep rich voice on "Eyes Without a Face."

It only would have been gay if you tacked it on your already prolapsed anus. Hanging posters of rock singers is not gay.

[quote] It only would have been gay if you tacked it on your already prolapsed anus. Hanging posters of rock singers is not gay.