After fronting the English punk-rock band Generation X, ’80s icon Billy Idol moved to New York in 1981 and began dancing with himself in pursuit of solo stardom. And it was his first summer of baki…
And it was his first summer of baking in the Big Apple that would inspire his breakout solo hit, 1982’s“New York just had this great energy because anything went, you know?” Idol, 67, told The Post. “And it fired me up … just living through this kind of really humid, hot summer. It was totally different to a summer in England. But also, yeah, I felt like I was hot — you know, sexually hot — as well.
After fronting the British punk-rock band Generation X, Billy Idol became a solo star in the ’80s with the MTV explosion.Fittingly, the concert will take place on the same night as this year’s After Generation X had first released “Dancing with Myself,” Idol remixed and re-released it as a solo single as he relocated from London to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. And the song provided the sonic springboard for his debut album in the city’s new-wave movement. “I went to a club on the West Side in the 80s, and they were playingBut it was during a studio session in Los Angeles that “White Wedding” came to him.
Four decades after releasing his solo debut, Billy Idol will play Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre on Tuesday nightAlthough the two spilt in 1989, they share a son, Willem Wolfe, 35, who is an electronic musician and DJ.
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