{"id":45692,"date":"2014-07-11T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45692"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T19:37:16","slug":"things-im-supposed-to-like-but-never-really-did-billy-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45692","title":{"rendered":"Things I’m Supposed To Like But Never Really Did: Billy Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"

For every Beatles, there’s gotta be a Monkees.<\/p>\n

For every New York Dolls, there’s a Kiss.<\/p>\n

For every Springsteen, there’s a Meat Loaf.<\/p>\n

Indeed, for every Madonna, there’s gotta be a Martika or a Keedy or a Regina.<\/p>\n

For every artist in popular music that makes changes by him or her or themselves, there’s going to be some record company’s attempt to create the same thing only bigger and better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And so for Johnny Rotten and Joe Strummer, there was Billy Idol.<\/p>\n

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Idol started as the lead singer of “Generation X”, best known as punk rock’s first sex symbols:
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