What a fkng great clip!! It's a terrific pop punk song. Billy was so charismatic!

@sexobscura

Жыл бұрын

operative word being: *WAS*

bringing me back to the era...the Early Punk Rock history.....ohhh GODDDD!!!!!

Saw them in Oxford in 78 supporting Siouxsie and the Banshees. Of course a big broke out. Billy had some balls to come out and tell everyone to calm down. Great times.

Steve Wright - talking over guitar solos since 1983!

@bobmccarthy1263

Жыл бұрын

Spot on there Bill.

@sallyraynor8984

9 ай бұрын

So true. He's an annoying little man. Is rude about many acts in his commentary too.

Billy was right, they were a good looking band. They were some handsome guys in 78! I remember having a crush on all of them back then!♡♡

Sir William of Idol...........another fine son of Bromley.

Gen x were better than anything idol ever did with his solo career!!

Thanks for posting. Quality.

their finest moment!

Billy had it all didn’t he ,? I’m reading his autobiography, great read about the start of punk ❤

@yvonnecollett

11 ай бұрын

Nearly finished his book,can't put it down,still love this guy,saw him a few weeks ago❤❤❤

@yvonnecollett

10 ай бұрын

His book is a great read. Saw him at Wolverhampton in July,he's still got it

those were the fun UK punk days !

Magnificent!

@killingheros3554

25 күн бұрын

Here ya are, again, everywhere.

The got on TOTP but the single still only got to number 47 in the charts!

@nickcolby1391

Жыл бұрын

Really ? Unusual, totp appearances usually pushed a song up the charts , great little punk song , should’ve charted

Good stuff - with a Rebel Yell.

Love it

So cute!

OH MY FUCKIN GOD THIS IS REALLY PUNK!!! :)))))

Billy Idol at his beginning. At that time, he was already an artist and a middlefinger showing rebel!!!...

@izzy_6283

5 жыл бұрын

They had already been going for 2 years at this.point! His beginning was in 76 with Chelsea, but i agree he was always a rebel & born gifted artist!

@dalakerdaniel9240

2 жыл бұрын

started in Chelsea ☠️💣☠️

@creepy_koenig

2 жыл бұрын

@@dalakerdaniel9240 Right. As a guitar player. But with gen x, his career as a singer began😛.

@dalakerdaniel9240

2 жыл бұрын

@@creepy_koenig Yep I agree ☠️💣☠️

Great song

Cool!

Billy Idol before he went all Hollywood ...

@deletebilderberg

3 жыл бұрын

And made 100 million dollars.

@dalakerdaniel9240

2 жыл бұрын

@@deletebilderberg 😂TheTraitor😂

@killingheros3554

25 күн бұрын

He still made kick ass music.

i so love billy and gen and billy is so f ing hot

@janeporter818

4 жыл бұрын

Righ?!

May be,but he grew up in Bromley and was part of the Bromley Contingent along with Souixie Souix.

@izzy_6283

5 жыл бұрын

His parents lived in Surrey & Bromley but the( Bromley contingent was just a group of kids following sex pistols around) and yep he did that

epic =D

Fuck yea! For more punk rock, watch The Strange Times TV!

Derwood was the naturally cool dude Billy and Tony always wanted to be - but never quite managed. 😎

@izzy_6283

5 жыл бұрын

Idk how you figure that.. ? but whatever

@mesolithicman164

4 жыл бұрын

Guy Lawrance 'Cool' as in stand on the spot, head down, no expression or performance other than pretending to play his guitar. He was what they rightfully call a 'sideman'. One of the 2 easier replaceable members of the band. Remind me, he went on to greater success in which band? No, I thought not.

@killingheros3554

25 күн бұрын

I can definitely see that.

Music today is sh*te. The 70s were fab - glam rock, punk and glam punk.

@briscoethecollie1510

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think Gen X was a punk band that embraced their glam rock idols and you can hear that in their sound, top tune!

what they lacked in the lyrical dept- they made up for with youthful aggression and energy- like the clash meets the jam- with a bit of the buzzzcocks on this- great tune no matter how you slice it

@izzy_6283

6 жыл бұрын

salvadory i always liked the lyrics to their songs as well...

@jasonlogan5622

Жыл бұрын

Punk lyrics don't have to have depth :) I remember seeing an interview with Alice Cooper where he was talking about the producer telling him to deliberately and consciously make his lyrics dumber, and dumber still

oi!

What is this version? I’ve never heard it before.

@Bessie1906 you mean new wave

Sounds like a rejected Buzzcocks demo.

He's not a son of Bromley, he's a son of posh Surrey.

@izzy_6283

5 жыл бұрын

Uh..where his parents lived really had no connection to what he used his talents for or the success of him & his bandmates. He was part of the bromley contingent. Btw Bromley was one of the wealthiest areas of greater London. So was Surrey His parents lived in both Surrey and Bromley but- so what?

@mesolithicman164

4 жыл бұрын

So, what? That prevents him from being a punk. Apart from the fact that he was at all the Sex Pistols early gigs and risked getting beaten up dressed as a punk in London in 1976?

@jenniferbeatty7545

4 жыл бұрын

@@mesolithicman164 Yeah, he's always been a fraud

@mesolithicman164

4 жыл бұрын

Jedidah Fire Oh, not you again. How exactly is he a fraud? He was at all the early punk gigs, he used to socialise with the members of the Pistols, he was in one of the first generation of punk bands called Chelsea on guitar with Tony James on bass. He's recently been touring with Steve Jones and Paul Cook. I suppose he might be a fraud because his hair isn't really blonde and his real name isn't 'Idol', but that's about as far as you can take that argument. And by the way, Derwood is a fake as he was playing in a heavy rock band before he was spotted for Gen X and had to have his long hippy hair cut off to join the band.

Why isnt the whole song there?

@celticoverall

4 жыл бұрын

The BBC let there nonce dj,s fuck songs up all the time

@gavinreid5387

3 жыл бұрын

Because it was not a hit.

Kathy who? I've always wanted to know

@3M4r4 its not punk its new wave n new wave was more punk than 'punk' was...look it up

steve wright needs chibbed

@mesolithicman164

4 жыл бұрын

Don't know what chibbed means but I know Wright is a total fuck'n wanker.

I'm fucking pissed. I've listen to ramones, sex pistols, misfits, adolescents, ect. ect. for the past five years and not once have I given these dudes a listen...fuck the Clash, Generation X fucking rules.

@bulletnose100

2 жыл бұрын

Ramones til i die. i was lucky to have been born 1960, and been there at the birth of punk in America, and then to have been in the navy traveled the world to see punk live. i may be 62 now, but punk til i die and wait'll i hit the retirement home, boy are they in for a surprise! muahahahahahah!

Too bad he was lip syncing lol

@yvonnecollett

11 ай бұрын

Top of the pops rarely played live for some reason

@leejoliver I heard his parents were rich and really from Surrey

@izzy_6283

6 жыл бұрын

jrmetmoi - his parents were 'working middle class and had lived in Surrey and Bromley as well as New York' but so ? That had nothing to do with these guys having a band/ making music/ their talents or success so i fail to see your point???

exactly *when* was Billy *electrocuted*