#billy-idol

#billy-idol

"In a lot of these cases, people get inducted and they have to bring the band members back together, 'cause they haven't worked together in years. But we’ve been working together all along, and that’s a great feeling."

Sombr played with the rockier edges of vocals that sound comfortable with everything from punk to pop. His falsetto soared on "Fake Plastic Trees," and I hope everyone in the crowd enjoyed it, because as much as sombr sings about smoking cigarettes, those notes might not be available to him for too many more years.

Once you're trying to get off heroin, what do you go to? You go to something else. I started smoking crack to get off heroin. It worked. It worked.

"I love him. He's a nice guy," the rocker told the British newspaper, "The i Paper..."

Billy Idol reflected on his time in New York during the eighties, recalling how he wrote 'Rebel Yell' and 'Eyes Without a Face' in his small apartment.