Billy Idol Releases EP, ‘The Roadside’ (Sept. 2021)

Billy Idol Releases EP, ‘The Roadside’

Post Published on October 11, 2021

Out Now: Stream Billy Idol’s Gritty ‘The Roadside’ EP, Four New Songs with Steve Stevens and Producer Butch Walker

September. 17, 2021
by Rock Cellar Magazine Staff

Legendary English rock icon Billy Idol returned recently with “Bitter Billy Idol Taste,” a reflective new song and music video expressing some raw emotions and dark energy — visually referencing Idol’s near-fatal motorcycle accident in 1990.

The song was a preview of The Roadside EP, a new collection of songs produced by Butch Walker that serves as Idol’s first release since 2014’s Kings & Queens of the Underground. 

…The new songs feature Idol’s longtime guitarist and collaborator Steve Stevens, with a news release noting that Roadside “was conceived, recorded, and mixed almost entirely under the shadow of the pandemic.”

Billy Idol revisits near-fatal motorcycle accident on new album: ‘I was a bit of a drug addict’

Sept. 16, 2021
by Melissa Ruggieri
USA TODAY

More than four decades into his career, Billy Idol is still learning.

But that he’s still here, creating music, feels like an even greater accomplishment.

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