music ruined my life

I love scouring through stacks of vinyl records from a collection about to be dispersed. This is not because I'm an absolute die-har...

While Billy Idol may never have been punk's resident philosopher, it's still fascinating watching him struggling, at length, to ...

Before I started this blog I made a list of all the possible material to include here. Nowhere on the list was a Billy Idol bootleg from th...

We'll end our Generation X series with this final version of the band, usually referred to as Gen X, that includes Billy Idol and Tony J...

While this bootleg recording, from a show an April '77 show opening up for John Cale, is pretty rough it's quite listenable as Billy...

While this pair of live BBC broadcasts from 1978 and 1980 is out-of-print in this version, a re-edited, shorter version was made available ...

For insight into why Generation X ( more here ) were regarded by some of their punk peers as phonies, contrast this February 1977 demo for ...

At the height of Billy Idol Mania (circa 1984) you could get all the Generation X L.P.'s for cheap. They'd all been re-released to c...