Dancing with Myself, Idol Billy

Thats what Im talking about...Of all these memoirs, Dancing With Myself was the only one that stimulated my envy--made me want to be Billy Idol for five minutes....Hes a genuine romantic, writing in a kind of overheated journalese about his London punk rock roots...and then falling head over heels for America (James Parker, The New York Times Book Review).

An early architect of punk rocks sound, style, and fury, whose lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into pops mainstream as one of MTVs first megastars, Billy Idol remains, to this day, a true rock n roll icon.

Now, in his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Dancing with Myself, Idol delivers an electric, refreshingly honest (Daily News, New York) account of his journey to fame--from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to the decadent life atop the dance-rock kingdom he ruled--delivered with the same in-your-face attitude and fire his fans have embraced for decades. Beyond adding his uniquely qualified perspective to the story of the evolution of rock, Idol is a brash, lively chronicler of his own career.

A survivors tale at its heart, this sometimes chilling and always riveting account of one mans creative drive joining forces with unbridled human desire is unmistakably literary in its character and brave in its sheer willingness to tell. With it, Billy Idol is destined to emerge as one of the great writers among his musical peers.