Billy Idol – The journey of a punk crooner
Born William Michael Albert Broad in Stanmore, Middlesex, in 1955, Billy Idol grew up in a middle-class household that moved between Long Island, New York, and suburban England.
Pretty Vacant – Sex Pistols
In the grimy, smoke-choked heart of 1977 London, where punk was less a genre and more a Molotov cocktail lobbed at the bloated corpse of rock ‘n’ roll, the Sex Pistols unleashed Pretty Vacant.
At San Quentin – Johnny Cash
On February 24, 1969, when Johnny Cash walked into San Quentin prison, it was not for show. It was not salvation either. It was a conflict.