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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.

Billy Idol

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.
BILLY IDOL

Adopting Ambition Real Rocks Something
There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn’t help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don’t.
BILLY IDOL

Day One People Thinking
I didn’t want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.
BILLY IDOL

Believe People Want
When the other man has none, you don’t need a gun.
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Gun Men Needs
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down – I’m out on a limb here, so watch my back.
BILLY IDOL

Dark Demagogue Heart Sex
They wouldn’t play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, ‘Punk rock doesn’t sell advertising, it won’t make any money.’
BILLY IDOL

Hair Money Play Rocks
Well there’s nothing to lose And there’s nothing to prove I’ll be dancing with myself.
BILLY IDOL

Dance Dancing Lose Nothing
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL

Attitude Rocks Thinking
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy.
BILLY IDOL

Flesh Sex Want
Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he’s always crying.
BILLY IDOL

Dying Fighting Light
I think love’s exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
BILLY IDOL

Able Exciting Thinking
I’m rolling in the feces of my greatest hits – that’s a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.
BILLY IDOL

Greatest Hits Looking Rolling
I’m not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces.
BILLY IDOL

Dog Men Past
I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it…
BILLY IDOL

Believe Earlier Music Quite Really
Walk with electro-glide down the blue highway.
BILLY IDOL

Blue Expression Walks
Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.
BILLY IDOL

Attitude Body Personality

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.

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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names… Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn’t really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny – yet something that seemed real rock ‘n’ roll… something that acknowledged my ambition.

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