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I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a legendary punk and rock singer-songwriter, who was a key part of the MTV-driven second British invasion back in the 80s, and has been a major figure on the global music scene ever since.

A man described by Rolling Stone as a hybrid of Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, and Dave Clark, by the Los Angeles Times as a peroxideed rocker with the sexiest sneer since Elvis, and by the Hollywood Reporter as the perfect visual fit

for the video era, Billy Idol.

Idol, who is perhaps best known for his songs, Dancing With Myself, White Wedding, and Rebel

Yell, has had four singles

cracked the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. Moni Moni Live, which went to number one in

1987, Cradle of Rock, number two in 1990, Eyes Without a Face, number four in 1984, and

to Be a Lover, number six in 1986. And he has had three albums crack the top

10 of the Billboard 200, Whiplash Smile, which went to number six in 1986, Rebel Yell, number

six in 1983, and Vital Idol, number 10 in 1987. He is also a three-time Grammy nominee, each time for best male rock vocal performance,

for Rebel Yell in 1985 to be a lover in 1987 and cradle of love in 1991.

And he was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2025 and again in

2006. As hard as it may be to believe, Billy Idol is now

70 and a grandfather, but his spiky blonde hair, trademark sneer, and seductive voice are all still there,

and his career now, in its 50th year, is still going strong. Indeed, within the last year, he put out a new

album, toured North America with Joan Jett, and was shortlisted for the best original song, Oscar,

for Dying to Live, a tune that he wrote with J. Ralph for Jonas Ackerelins' documentary about his

roller coaster life, Billy Idol should be dead, which had its world premiere at the

Tribeca Festival in June 2025 and began rolling out in select theaters at the end of February

2026. Over the course of a conversation at Idol's home in the Hollywood Hills, on a spacious

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