“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…