Billy Idol Should Be Dead review – nostalgic docu-tribute to British postpunk’s rebel | Film

Billy Idol Should Be Dead review – nostalgic docu-tribute to British postpunk’s rebel | Film

Swedish film-maker Jonas Åkerlund has been attracted to the wilder fringe of rock’n’roll and I discovered myself grudgingly admiring his gruesome true-life death-metal horror thriller Lords of Chaos. So he was most likely the precise selection to direct this lavish docu-tribute to British postpunk legend Billy Idol, which mixes a form of humorous shrug at…

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“I should be dead, but someone up there likes me.” Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in ’80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit

“I should be dead, but someone up there likes me.” Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in ’80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit

The title of the new Billy Idol documentary, Billy Idol Should Be Dead, speaks volumes about the English rocker’s uninhibited and incessantly reckless embrace of hedonism and debauchery at the peak of his fame. Idol had a reasonably profitable profession in England with London punks Generation X -once dismissed as “really dreadful garbage” by Elton…

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Gillian Anderson to get ‘in the ring’ with Billy Crudup for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in London | Theatre

Gillian Anderson to get ‘in the ring’ with Billy Crudup for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in London | Theatre

Gillian Anderson is to return to the West End in a job she has coveted “for decades”. The Sex Education star will seem reverse Billy Crudup in a revival of Edward Albee’s marital meltdown traditional Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the autumn. Staged in-the-round, the manufacturing shall be directed by Marianne Elliott at the…

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