Growing up in New York — specifically in Queen’s Kew Gardens — a young Steven Schneider would go to see all-night rock and roll movies at the Eighth Street Playhouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Steve Stevens says he used toy ray guns to make Rebel Yell’s iconic solo “more than just notes” and execute the “space-age gunfighter solo” he had in his mind. The inspiration came from the “sonic ...

“I’ve been fighting with my demons so long, they’ve become my friends,” sings Billy Idol on “Cage,” the title track of his upcoming four-song EP. Outside the realm of personal demonology and in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. When British rocker Billy Idol was recording his second full-length solo ...

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 ...

Stevens recalled in a 2023 interview with Guitar Player that Idol had something to do with his collaboration with Faltermeyer taking wing. After their recording sessions, the composer was working on a ...

80s rock was alive and well on a chilly summer evening at Pine Knob as two living legends performed almost to the midnight hour. Billy Idol and Joan Jett took thousands of people on a journey back in ...

Rebel Yell was a merger of hard rock, New Wave and pop. Legendary rock and roller and punk icon Billy Idol celebrates the 40th anniversary of his second album, "Rebel Yell," with a new deluxe expanded ...