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Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (Original Post) marble falls Wednesday OP
What A Guitar Solo!! ProfessorGAC Wednesday #1
Amazing, huge talent. And so young. marble falls Wednesday #2
Agree on Stevens! Wuddles440 Wednesday #4
Now the old fart is 70. Got some powerful songs Norrrm Wednesday #3

Wuddles440

(2,054 posts)
4. Agree on Stevens!
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:37 PM
Wednesday

I believe that he and Idol are up for Rock HOF consideration again this year.

Norrrm

(4,631 posts)
3. Now the old fart is 70. Got some powerful songs
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:15 PM
Wednesday

I'm afraid that exposes some age in a lot of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol

In 1990, he broke his leg in a motorcycle accident, and later said in his biography Dancing With Myself (2014) that "by the time the motorcycle accident happened, [he] had been living by the credo 'live every day as if it's your last, and one day you're sure to be right'"

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