Billy Idol is ready to rock the Walk of Fame.
One of the first stars of the music video era, the"White Wedding" and"Rebel Yell" singer sold more than 40 million albums in a career that began in the mid-1970s as a guitarist in the punk rock band Chelsea. Idol, born William Michael Albert Broad in London, left the group and joined former bandmate Tony James to form Generation X with Idol on lead vocals.
The distinctive stage name is thanks in part to a chemistry teacher's description of Idol on his school report card as"idle." Over the ensuing years, the prolific rock artist was anything but an idle do-nothing. Generation X broke up in the early 1980s, and Idol left for New York to pursue a solo career. His arrival in the U.S. coincided with the rise of MTV, and the two were an immediate fit. The video for Idol's first solo single,"Dancing With Myself," was released in 1981 and received heavy rotation in the MTV lineup during the music video channel's first year.
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