When he was 2, his father moved the family to Long Island, New York, in pursuit of the American dream. 10Born William Michael Albert Broad in Middlesex, England, in 1955, the first child of Bill and Joan Broad. When an American model held a press conference claiming to be Idol's girlfriend, Lister responded by holding one of her own, maintaining that she was 'and always had been Idol's girlfriend'. Lister and Billy Idol together have a son, Willem Wolf Broad, who was born in Los Angeles, California on 15 June 1988.
Billy enjoyed a fairly normal childhood, hanging out with his pals and getting up to the usual mischief strong-willed boys are wont to. In 1990, the couple divorced.The time in Goring would be a happy period for the Broads. They started dating in 1988 and have a daughter named Bonnie blue Broad, whom they welcomed on August 21, 1989. In addition, he dated actress Linda Mathis, who was thirteen years Billy’s junior.
Billy is father to son, Willem Wolf Brand, from ex-girlfriend Perry Lister and daughter, Bonne Blue, to Linda Mathis. Nevertheless, Billy progressed well and, when the family moved to Bromley in Kent in 1971, he transferred to the Ravensbourne Grammar School.Little is known about Billy Idol’s house other than that it is located in the Hollywood Hills and is rumored to have a red walled living room. When a teacher wrote "Billy is Idle" in the margin of one of his works, it stuck in his mind and later inspired his stage name. Idol was a bright student, and passed his 11 plus, but he was bored at school.
They became known as the Bromley Contingent (the contingent included Susan Dallion ( Siouxsie Sioux), later of Siouxsie and the Banshees) and began following the anarchic Sex Pistols to every gig. He started hanging out with a group of like-minded friends at the in-venues in London, instantly recognizable by their Malcolm Mclaren SEX shop clothes and peg pants. This coincided with the explosion of punk rock, which captured the imagination of Idol far more than his studies. He began his course in English and Philosophy in September 1975. Idol enjoyed the more relaxed environment here and, a year later, had secured his place at Sussex University. His disappointed parents arranged for him to retake his exams at Orpington College of further education.
This and his father's doubt and disapproval only served to make Billy more determined.When Billy met Tony James, a fellow student, and became Chelsea, then Generation X, they started to get noticed. They also did an audition for famed music managers Malcolm McLaren and Bernie Rhodes, who told Steve that he was the real star. They gigged in the campus cafeteria and did one gig outside the University at the local youth hall, though they never recorded. They played covers of various bands, The Animals, The Beatles and The Doors. This meant dropping out of university and forming his first band, The Rockettes, with his classmate, Steve Upstone.
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Idol made full use of the MTV explosion - the hugely successful videos for "White Wedding" and "Dancing With Myself" showcased his peroxide spiky hair, sneer and leathers to great effect. He found the perfect collaborator and partner in guitarist Steve Stevens and released the self-titled "Billy Idol" in 1982. In 1981, the EP "Don't Stop" (comprising a cover of Tommy James' 1960s hit "Mony Mony" and a pair of remixed Generation X tracks, including "Dancing With Myself") landed him a solo deal with Chrysalis. He relocated to New York and hooked up with Kiss manager Bill Aucoin. After 3 albums and with management problems, band discord and the decline of the punk movement, Billy decided it was time to go solo. In 1977, Chrysalis Records offered them a contract.
Stevens left to form his own band shortly afterwords.Idol was ready to try new things, moving to Los Angeles, taking on a new band and appearing in an all-star stage version of The Who's "Tommy". 1986 saw a new release, "Whiplash Smile" - it sold well and saw him nominated for a second Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (the first was for "Rebel Yell"), but some felt it failed to live up to expectations. An eight-track best-of, "Vital Idol", was released in 1985 and the popularity of the live video of "Mony Mony" on MTV kept him in the spotlight. These early years were wild with Billy's hell-raising antics generating as much (if not more) publicity than his music.
Idol decided to take a break and try his hand at acting, making his screen debut in Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991) in 1991. The album was a success, his fourth in a row to achieve, at least, platinum sales. He battled back bravely - the video for the first single, "Cradle of Love", showed him from the waist up - at the time, he was paralysed below. He almost lost a leg and was confined to bed for 6 months.
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Although he has never married, Idol has two children - a son from his long term relationship with former Hot Gossip Dancer Perri Lister, William Broad, born in June 1988, and a daughter, Bonnie Blue, from another relationship, born 1989. Upon his discharge, he calmed down and began to focus more on fatherhood. He had another brush with death in 1994 when he overdosed and had to be treated in a Los Angeles hospital. The album flopped, and Idol sank into drug addiction. He paid $2700 in fines and was required to appear in a series of anti-drug commercials.The year 1993's "Cyberpunk" saw a new-look Idol, he had changed his famous peroxide spikes to dreadlocks, and his sound to synthesized techo beats.
It may be some time since the hedonistic, hell-raising days but his unbridled passion for music and performing remain and the shows are still no-holds barred. A more extensive "Greatest Hits" was released in 2001 and sold over half a million copies in the USA alone, 2002 saw two VH1 specials - Behind the Music and Storytellers.Idol is currently working with Stevens on new material, some of which has featured in the most recent tours over the past four years. He teamed up with Stevens, once more, and found the old magic was still there. In 1999, his recognition was confirmed with his second wax model opening in Las Vegas.
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