Dancing With Myself by Billy Idol

An early architect of punk rock’s sound, style, and fury, his lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into pop’s mainstream as one of MTV’s first megastars.

In Dancing With Myself, he delivers an electric, searingly honest account of his journey to fame—from his early days as frontman of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to the decadent life atop the dance-rock kingdom he led—all rendered with the in-your-face attitude and fire his fans have embraced for decades.

Beyond adding his uniquely qualified perspective to the evolution of rock and culture, Idol is a brash, lively chronicler of his own career.

Featuring sixteen pages of behind-the-scenes photos, Dancing With Myself is a survivor’s story at its heart, but also an enchanting, sometimes chilling, and always riveting account of one man’s creative drive joining forces with unbridled human desire, this startling memoir is unmistakably literary in its character and brave in its sheer willingness to tell. Billy Idol is destined to emerge as one of the great writers among his musical peers.

Paperback 336 pages













They Say If You Hear the Bang Youre Still Alive
Let Out My First Rebel Yell
England Swings Like a Pendulum
Rock N Roll High School Long Hair Flares and Hash
Sucking in the 70s
And Then There Was Punk
In a Revolution One Year Equals Five
Generation X Marks the Spot William Broad Becomes
A Change in Pace of Fantasy and Taste
Everybody Must Get Rolling Stoned
The Roar of the Lion and a Nonstop Global
Orgi
Just a Perfect
King Death An Aborted Film Project Signals
Return to Splendour
The Luck of the Irish
We Need a Miracle Joy We Need a Rock and Roll

A Night at the Roxy
Punk Comes of Age When the Two Sevens Clash
Youth Youth Youth Break On Through to the Other Side
Not Selling Out But Buying
Bands Across the Ocean
Ready Steady
And I Guess that I Just Dont Know
A Rock N Roll Conquistador Invades America
Making Mony Mony
A Left Coast Fusion of Punk
If You Can Make It Here
Hollywood Daze and Tequila Nights
Video Thrills the Radio Star
Rebel Yell with a Cause
La Vie Enchanté
Trouble with the Sweet Stuff
Bear a Charmed Life Which Must Not Yield
Hollywood Promises
Have a Fuck on
The Madam and the Preacher
Mind Fire
Bitter Pill
My Road Is Long It Lingers

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