00:01What if suddenly you did take off, and you were number one in America, you were number one in England,
00:06what would you do with the money then?
00:08I'll spend it on drugs.
00:10Do you think that people expect rock stars to be outrageous?
00:15Yeah, I guess they do.
00:16I, like, watch Billy Idol footage like it's porn.
00:19He's wearing leather and pumping his fists in the air and he's got the snarl.
00:24There's no one hotter than Billy fucking Idol.
00:28I just want to get screwed to death, you know.
00:30This is like a rock god.
00:35Told my mum and dad, I'm going to join a punk rock group.
00:38Wow, that was a sad day.
00:41Dad didn't speak to Billy, he didn't understand Billy's world music.
00:45Billy changed his hair and he went, I'm thinking of calling myself Billy Idol.
00:49Why not be your own hero?
00:51Touch me to start again.
00:57At the start of the 70s, the music scene exploded in England.
01:02There was definitely that sense that people were coming to learn how to be punks.
01:07Billy stuck out because he's beautiful.
01:09He was like a pretty boy and I don't think a lot of people took him seriously.
01:12We've been a part of this music revolution and we want to push it, push it onward.
01:18Billy really broke through everywhere and kaboom.
01:21Billy Idol put MTV on the map.
01:24I'm here for rock and roll.
01:27To be the persona of Billy Idol, he needed the booze, he needed the drugs to deal with the pressure.
01:33The drugs just made life hell.
01:36The monster comes out and it changes everything.
01:40It's easy to say it's the drugs, but what about if it's me?
01:44What about if it's really Billy who's doing this?
01:47Singer Billy Idol was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
01:50He's definitely had nearly nine lives, but he always comes back.
01:58He's a legend, diva, punk rock god.
02:03That was the fun of punk rock.
02:05That was what it was asking you to do.
02:08To go out on a fucking limb and hope to hell it's not sore enough behind you,
02:13because it's probably going to be.
02:14But by the time it is, we'll probably be dead.
02:18Rock and roll forever!
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