Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. When British rocker Billy Idol was recording his second full-length solo ...

Growing up in New York — specifically in Queen’s Kew Gardens — a young Steven Schneider would go to see all-night rock and roll movies at the Eighth Street Playhouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Billy Idol has released “Best Way Out of Here,” a previously unheard track from his Rebel Yell sessions. “Back in ‘83, must have been working on it, and then didn’t quite finish it,” he says in an ...

British rockstar Billy Idol is one of the most beloved icons of the '80s. However, it wasn't until his hit song, and his album’s namesake, Rebel Yell that he truly became a bona fide superstar in ...

In the early 1980s, Billy Idol exploded onto the American music scene with “Dancing with Myself,” the neo-punk anthem that he originally recorded with Generation X. He had recently left England for ...

In 1976, a gang of young, early-adopter punk fans, dubbed the “Bromley Contingent” by the British press, began following the Sex Pistols around Europe. One of those fans, William Broad — soon to be ...

Billy Idol will commemorate the 40th anniversary of his sophomore album Rebel Yell with a deluxe expanded edition set to arrive on April 26. The new reissue will feature several previously unreleased ...

On Friday night at Acrisure Arena, Billy Idol kicked off his 90-minute set with the song "Still Dancing" from his latest album, "Dream Into It," released in February. This was an excellent way to ...

Billy Idol’s double-Platinum breakthrough album Rebel Yell certainly took off in early 1984 because its raucous title track received a lot of airplay on MTV. And as successive singles emerged it ...

Rebel Yell was a merger of hard rock, New Wave and pop. Legendary rock and roller and punk icon Billy Idol celebrates the 40th anniversary of his second album, "Rebel Yell," with a new deluxe expanded ...