{"id":2323589,"date":"2026-03-11T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2323589"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:41:10","slug":"awards-chatter-pod-billy-idol-on-new-doc-old-hits-and-being-a-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/awards-chatter-pod-billy-idol-on-new-doc-old-hits-and-being-a-grandfather\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Awards Chatter\u2019 Pod: Billy Idol on New Doc, Old Hits and Being a Grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">As hard as it is to believe, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002150\/\">Billy Idol<\/a>, the English punk-turned-rock singer\/songwriter who was a key part of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0826002\/\">MTV<\/a>-driven \u201cSecond British Invasion\u201d in the \u201980s \u2014 his hits include \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16425030\/\">Dancing with Myself<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097995\/\">White Wedding<\/a>,\u201d \u201cCradle of Love,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0053459\/\">Eyes Without a Face<\/a>\u201d and a chart-topping cover of \u201cMony Mony\u201d \u2014 is now 70 and a grandfather. But rest assured: his trademark sneer, spiky blonde hair and seductive voice are all still there. And his career, now in its 50th year, is still going strong.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, since the darkest days of the pandemic, when \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16425030\/\">Dancing with Myself<\/a>\u201d experienced a resurgence in popularity (for obvious reasons), he has released two EPs (2021\u2019s The Roadside and 2022\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28288478\/\">The Cage<\/a>) and a studio album (his first in 11 years, 2025\u2019s Dream Into It); toured North America with old pal <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005053\/\">Joan Jett<\/a>; and collaborated with ardent admirer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1415323\/\">Miley Cyrus<\/a> on \u201cNight Crawling,\u201d a song on her 2020 album Plastic Hearts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hard as it is to believe, Billy Idol, the English punk-turned-rock singer\/songwriter who was a key part of the MTV-driven \u201cSecond British Invasion\u201d in the \u201980s \u2014 his hits include \u201cDancing with Myself,\u201d \u201cWhite Wedding,\u201d \u201cCradle of Love,\u201d \u201cEyes Without a Face\u201d and a chart-topping cover of \u201cMony Mony\u201d \u2014 is now 70 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2323590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2323589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Awards-Chatter-Pod-Billy-Idol-on-New-Doc-Old-Hits.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323591,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323589\/revisions\/2323591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}