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Billy Idol – White Wedding
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White Wedding is the second track on Billy Idol’s self-titled album, “Billy Idol”. Released as a single on October 23, 1982, the song reached #6 on UK’s singles chart and #36 on
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Billy Idol – Flesh for Fantasy
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Released as the third single from Rebel Yell, “Flesh For Fantasy” became Idol’s fourth top 40 in the US, reaching #29 in October 1984. It also made the top 40 in several countries
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Billy Idol – Crank Call
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[Verse 1] / If you're waiting for a call / There's double trouble, the pressure of it all / This line is due for communication / Not if you've lost all reason / [Chorus] / Crank
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Billy Idol – Speed
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[Verse 1] / Running from the nightmare / In the middle of the road / Hell's no place for sleeping / In a world beyond control / Caught in the headlights / Coming after you / When I
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Billy Idol – Sweet Sixteen
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“Sweet Sixteen” was the third single released from the album Whiplash Smile. The song peaked at No. 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The song is inspired by the true story of
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Billy Idol – Daytime Drama
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[Verse 1] / Day by day, hour by hour / What haunts my nighttime starts my daylight / Even good friends have no answers / Beautiful stars, ow / You don't want hard cash, just a few
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Billy Idol – Heroin
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[Verse 1] / Well, I wish I was born / A thousand years ago / And I wish that I sailed / The darkened sea / On a great big clipper ship / Goin' from this land into that / In a
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Billy Idol – L.A. Woman
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“L.A. Woman” is a cover of The Doors‘ original song. Idol’s version reached #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its release in 1990.
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Billy Idol – Cage
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[Verse 1] / Screaming in isolation / Walking through desolation alley / Boarded up our ambitions / Flooded out all the engines / I've been punching through the walls, I've been
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Billy Idol – Shock to the System
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[Intro] / Woah, yeah / Yow / [Verse 1] / It was a night, oh, what a night / L.A., burning bright, oh, what a night / Said yeah, come on / It made my world stand still / Ah, riot
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Billy Idol – Dancing with Myself
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“Dancing With Myself” was originally recorded and released by Gen X, Idol’s punk-rock group, in 1979 but it failed to gain commercial success in the UK. When Idol left for a solo
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Billy Idol – John Wayne
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[Verse 1] / You know you make me crazy / And my mind is racing / You're wastin' all my time / Someone come and save me / Oh, yeah / 'Cause when I need you / I can see through / And
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Billy Idol – Don't Need a Gun
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[Verse 1] / A human heart goes out tonight / Yes, a red-hot love on a red stoplight / I see a scene, so cold it echoes in blue / Oh, those twisting tongues, they are after you / [
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Billy Idol – Catch My Fall
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[Verse 1] / I have the time, so I will sin, yeah / I'm just a boy, but I will win, yeah / Lost songs of lovers, fellow travelers, yeah / Leave me sad and hollow, out of words / [
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Billy Idol – Mony Mony (Live)
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In late 1987, rocker Billy Idol’s live performance of the 1968 Tommy James and the Shondells chart-topper “Mony Mony” brought it back to #1 in the US.
In dance clubs, a trend
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Billy Idol – Bitter Taste
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This song is a reflection on Idol’s 1990 motorcycle accident that nearly cost him his leg and led him to lose major roles in two Hollywood movies (he was supposedly set to play T-
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Billy Idol – Nobody's Business
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[Verse 1] / What a fool to step into those shoes / Either way, you know they win or lose / You know money talks / Your eyes, they ain't so blue / You love to watch the greenbacks
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Billy Idol – Wasteland
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[Intro] / (Out into the wasteland) / (Out into the wasteland) / [Refrain] / (No religion) No religion, no religion at all / (No religion) No religion, no religion at all / No
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Billy Idol – Blue Highway
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[Intro] / Wow, ah / Ow / Ow / [Verse 1] / So, my good friend / Your super drug ends / I go up to the stratosphere / Brain fry Day-Glo / Holy water for your soul / And I'll wake up
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Billy Idol – Man for All Seasons
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[Intro] / Oh, yeah / Oh, yeah yeah / [Verse 1] / Time on my side, are you ready to learn? / Said, “Baby, are you ready to burn?” / Oh, burning desire, I'm a soul on fire / And
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Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
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At a televised performance of VH1 Storytellers Billy Idol said that he had attended an event where Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones were taking
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Billy Idol – Scream
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Ooh, yeah! / [Verse 1] / You can fill my cup / You can fill my bowl / This train is ready to roll / Your eyes of fire / Have stole my soul / Still coming back for more / [Pre-
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Billy Idol – Intro
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The future has imploded into the present / With no nuclear war, the new battlefields are people's minds and souls / Mega-corporations are the new governments / Computer-generated
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Billy Idol – It's So Cruel
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[Verse 1] / Here I am again, pretty baby / Hanging around / Tonight I've been in every bar in town / Here I am again, pretty baby / Hanging around / Tonight I have to try out every
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Billy Idol – Neuromancer
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[Intro] / Age of destruction / Age of oblivion / Age of destruction / Age of oblivion / [Verse 1] / Discovered love in the rancid days of ruin / My body's sweatin' toxins of my own
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Billy Idol – Baby Talk
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[Verse 1] / All around the world / I said listen, listen what I say now / For every boy and girl / Wanna hear some happy baby talk? / [Pre-Chorus] / Everything is mine / And mine
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Billy Idol – Bitter Pill
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[Intro] / Yeah! / [Verse 1] / Ridin' down this road / Like I've ridden down a million / I've run through every roadblock in this town / I laughed at all the signs / That say speed'
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Billy Idol – Cradle of Love
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Well- ow! / Rock the cradle of love / Rock the cradle of love / Yes, the cradle of love don't rock easily, it's true / Well, rock the cradle of love / I rocked the cradle of love
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Billy Idol – Prodigal Blues
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[Verse 1] / Riding my life like a runaway train / Moving from one track to that / Howling, crying / Screaming at the moon / Only my voice came back / Only the echo came back / When
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Billy Idol – To Be a Lover
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[Verse 1] / Have I told you / Lately that I love you? / If I didn't, darlin' / You see, I'm so sorry / Didn't I reach out / And hold you / In lovin' arms? / Well, if I didn't, oh
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Billy Idol – (Do Not) Stand In the Shadows
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[Verse 1] / Hearts which beat to a precise beat / Painting shadows on the wall / We'll cut out cars, drive by bars / All for one, one for all, ah / Like teenage sleaze and comic
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Billy Idol – Dead On Arrival
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[Intro] / Ow! / [Verse 1] / Dead on arrival / Well, that's how they pronounced him / But I'm out for survival / I'm alive in this town / Ow! It took a vital injection / From that
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Billy Idol – Congo Man
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[Verse] / Now, ma ma-e, ma ma-e / Ma ma-e, ma ma-e, oh / Ma ma-e, ma ma-e / Ma ma-e, ma ma-e, ma ma-e / Ma ma-e, ma ma-e / Ma ma-e, ma ma-e, ma ma-e
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Billy Idol – The Loveless
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[Verse 1] / Well, I know she's waiting for me, yeah / Outside of society (Yeah) / I know she's sailing for me, ooh, baby / Ran out of society, yeah, dance with me / [Chorus] / I
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Billy Idol – Untouchables
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[Verse 1] / You and me have a passion escaping the days that go by / Just our desire / Patronise a secret painted salon, let us talk about the live[?] / Where the skins aren't out
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Billy Idol – Tomorrow People
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[Intro] / (Think about the future) / (Tomorrow people) / (This is the future) / [Vere 1] / A time warp scene / A sci-fi story / A dirt-coloured love / You hope for glory / I like
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Billy Idol – Hot In the City
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[Intro] / (Stranger, stranger, stranger, stranger) / [Verse 1] / It's hot here at night, lonely, black and quiet / On a hot summer night / Don't be afraid of the world we made / On
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Billy Idol – Frosty The Snowman
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Frosty the Snowman / Was a jolly happy soul / With a corncob pipe and a button nose / And his eyes made out of coal / Frosty the Snowman / Made the children laugh and play / And
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