
Artist
Billy Idol
Billy Idol is a post-punk artist from Stanmore, Middlesex, UK formed in 1976. 48 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Post-Punk · Stanmore, Middlesex, UK · Best post-punk albums
- 48
- Releases
- 1981–2026
- Active years
- 1976
- Formed

Artist
Billy Idol is a post-punk artist from Stanmore, Middlesex, UK formed in 1976. 48 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Post-Punk · Stanmore, Middlesex, UK · Best post-punk albums

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Billy Idol
1982 · 10 tracks

Vital Idol: Revitalized
2018

Whiplash Smile
1986

Charmed Life
1990

Cyberpunk
1993

Greatest Hits
2001

Vital Idol
1985

Dream Into It
2025

Devil's Playground
2005

Idolize Yourself: The Very Best Of Billy Idol
2024

Rebel Yell 2.0 - The Remixes
2024

Happy Holidays
2021
BFI Live!
2016

Pete Townshend's Classic Quadrophenia
2015
Kings & Queens of the Underground
2014
Essential
2011
10 Great Songs
2009

Club Wedding
2008
The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself
2008
Happy Holidays: A Very Special Christmas Album
2006
The Essential
2003
Idolatry
1991
Idol Songs: 11 of the Best
1988

Rebel Yell
Single · 1983

The Cage EP
EP · 2022

Still Dancing
Single · 2026

Bitter Taste
Single · 2026

Good to Go
Single · 2026

Cage
Single · 2026

77
Single · 2026

Dying To Live
Single · 2026

Dancing With Myself
Single · 2024

Don't Stop EP
EP · 2024

Flesh For Fantasy (Demo) / Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Single · 2024

Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Single · 2024

Haunted Hits
EP · 2023

Dancing With Myself / Mony Mony (Live)
Single · 2023

Mony Mony (Live)
Single · 2023
The Roadside EP
EP · 2021

The Roadside
EP · 2021

Dancing With Myself (RAC Remix)
Single · 2018

White Wedding
Single · 2009

Hot In The City
Single · 2009

Mony Mony
Single · 2009

John Wayne
Single · 2008
Sweet Sixteen
Single · 1987
Eyes Without a Face
Single · 1984
Don't Stop
EP · 1981
Born William Michael Albert Broad in Middlesex, England, in 1955, the first child of Bill and Joan Broad. When he was 2, his father moved the family to Long Island, New York, in pursuit of the American dream. They returned 4 years later (now with a baby sister, Jane) to Dorking. America made a big impression on Billy; he loved the big cars and rock music. The family moved next to the Running Horses Public House in Mickleham, until 1963, while their home in Goring, Sussex, was being built. The time in Goring would be a happy period for the Broads. Billy enjoyed a fairly normal childhood, hanging out with his pals and getting up to the usual mischief strong-willed boys are wont to. The Broads were a religious family who regularly attended church, Billy joined the Boy Scouts in Goring, though was reputedly asked to leave after getting caught kissing a girl. Idol was a bright student, and passed his 11 plus, but he was bored at school. When a teacher wrote "Billy is Idle" in the margin of one of his works, it stuck in his mind and later inspired his stage name. Nevertheless, Billy progressed well and, when the family moved to Bromley in Kent in 1971, he transferred to the Ravensbourne…