Name: The Roadside
Brand: Billy Idol

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4050538694949

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Digipack.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-17

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Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

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Standard:20

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Artist

Billy Idol

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

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Dark Horse

Billy Idol is a British post punk/hard rock musician, songwriter, and artist. Born on 30 November 1955 in Stanmore, London, England, UK. He gained fame as a founding member of Generation X in 1976 before embarking on a successful solo career. After the release of his second studio album "Rebel Yell" in 1983, he became an international rock star and moved to the US to further his career.

Idol's music videos were known for their constant playback on MTV during its early days. His unique blend of punk rock and hard rock influences has earned him a dedicated fan base around the world.

Similar artists who share Billy Idol's energetic style include The Cars, The Romantics, Men At Work, Robert Palmer, INXS, Duran Duran, Wang Chung, Cheap Trick, Howard Jones, Pat Benatar,Thompson Twins,Fine Young Cannibals,Loverboy,A Flock Of Seagulls,
Simple Minds,Huey Lewis & The News ,The Cult ,The Human League ,The Go-Go's,and Alice Cooper.

Dark Horse is a record label founded by George Harrison in the mid '70s. Although technically signed to EMI, Harrison used Dark Horse as his solo venture after The Beatles' Apple era. While its only major chart success came with the duo Splinter's hit 'Costafine Town', the label thrived throughout the '80s when Harrison left EMI and signed with Warner Bros Records. Even his solo albums carried the Dark Horse logo, including his final album Brainwashed. In 2020, Dhani Harrison and manager David Zonshine relaunched the label through a global partnership with BMG.

The label has had variations in pressing plants such as Capitol Records Pressing Plant in Los Angeles (LW), Jacksonville (JW), and Winchester (WW). The Winchester plant usually has an engraved horn.

Note that there are unofficial releases using the Dark Horse Records name, which can be found under Dark Horse Records (4).

Billy Idol releases a new EP, The Roadside - his first new release in nearly seven years via Dark Horse Records. Produced by Butch Walker (Green Day, Weezer) and featuring Idol’s longtime lead guitarist and co-writer Steve Stevens, The Roadside was conceived, recorded, and mixed almost entirely under the shadow of the pandemic. The lead single Bitter Taste, features some of Idol’s most introspective and confessional lyrics ever, as he confronts death, rebirth, and his personal growth in the thirty-one years since his near-fatal 1990 motorcycle accident. “I think everyone has been feeling more reflective (during the pandemic). So, it seemed quite logical and natural to write something about my motorcycle accident,” Idol explains. “Certainly, the motorcycle accident was the catharsis, the wake-up moment. A little bit of me got left on that roadside. But it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing in the end; it was a wake-up call. Maybe on that roadside I left behind the irreverent youthful Billy and opened the door for a more attentive father and a more sensitive musician.”

The Roadside

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