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.
When you drop the needle on “Purple Haze,” the world shifts. It’s 1967, and Jimi Hendrix, a Seattle-born sorcerer with a Stratocaster, unleashes a sonic comet that scorches the earth.
There is almost not time to blink. The phone rings, the line clicks, and suddenly you're in it—hanging on the Telephone doesn't so much start as ambush you.
In a quiet corner of eternity, we sat down for an impossible conversation with John Lennon, not the myth but the man, to talk about music, peace, and the world he left behind.