For his concert at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, he delivered hit songs and all his signature, retro swagger.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. A poignant moment in Billy Idol Should Be Dead, a new documentary about ...

Billy Idol was one of the most high-profile pop stars of the 1980s thanks to his embrace of music videos just in time for the birth of MTV. He was famous for something else, too - rock 'n' roll excess ...

It would take nearly 20 years, and the involvement of '80s rocker Billy Idol at the peak of his powers, to take the hard-charging and ultra-catchy rock classic "Mony Mony" to the top of the Billboard ...

The new song that closes the nearly two-hour retrospective of a rock star who survived excessive drug use and a horrific motorcycle accident carries an equally striking title: “Dying to Live.” But ...

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 ...

We’ve got another artist documentary added to the watchlist and, we’ll even get to enjoy it in the comfort of a sticky-floored, popcorn-scented movie theater the way the dark lord intended. Billy Idol ...

In the 1980s he was the wild poster boy of mainstream punk. With straw-blond spikes and a curled top lip, Billy Idol was one of the best-known faces of the MTV era and delivered global hits such as ...