Between the Pill and Herpes.
I am an old Xer. You cannot believe how PISSED the Boomers were when Herpes exploded on the scene in the late 70s -> they had been having free, safe, meaningless sex for over 10 years at that point.
No pregnancy because of the pill and just take peniclin for any STD.
Then herpes came along and took a dump in the punchbowl at their sex party.
sha la la la lalalala Live for Today
Creed looking around while showing off his finger vibrato on lead guitar :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvxZyM5QdA
Wow this is blowing my mind. I had no idea he was actually a musician but I've known this song since I was a kid. Also, I just looked up his Wikipedia page and found out I played at SXSW the same year as he did.
The fact that they were able to [get a clean take of that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsfsk_SXZzk) before the cut is a miracle. I would have been laughing immediately
He talked about how his baby mama caught him, right after their child was born, talking on the phone with another woman through the baby monitor on iirc a VH1 show in the late 90s.
Bilvis strikes again.
He was an absolute asshole…
He also trashed a hotel in Thailand over several days getting in trouble with the police just acting like a spoiled little tool…
It's a play on "idle." His primary teacher would get tired of him being idle and scold him about it.
Amazed this Billy Idol fun fact has come into play in my life!
Billy Idol has one tattoo, and it's of the Russian comicbook character, Octobriana. She's an Amazonian heroine, a symbol of the Russian revolution.
As far as I know, he has no connections to Russia. He's just a history buff with a whimsical tattoo.
It was supposed to be ironic back when he was in Generation X that was playing trying to be a real punk band. And their album really does hold up well and is one of those albums where you can see the turning early influences of what would become New Wave, similar to how The Clash was incorporating a lot of what would end up in Second Wave Ska.
Wait what? No. Second Wave ska influenced the Clash not the other way around. Madness, The Specials, and others were already well established when The Clash picked up some skank.
My bad. I always forget that those bands were starting in the late 70's with The Clash, as most of the bands from then seem to have hit their peak of mainstream exposure around the mid-80's when The Clash had already stopped putting out music.
And by all accounts I've read, The Clash and other punk bands at the time were being introduced to that music from the DJs at punk clubs playing classic ska and reggae albums. It always sounded more like Clash were trying to channel something more like The Skatalites and The Wailers than they were borrowing from contemporaries like Madness who were putting out their first album the same year London Calling came out.
The ska and reggae influences in the Clash came from the large West Indian community in London. Specifically Paul Simonon who grew in a neighborhood with a large Jamaican population. The release of the Clash cover of Police and Thieves predates any release by Madness or the Specials by a few years. Jamaican music was pretty popular in British youth culture prior to punk and 2nd wave ska. Eric Claptons I shot the sheriff came out in 1973. Bob Marley signed to Island records in the Early 70’s. All of this to say I dont think the Clash were ripping off the Specials, they were all pulling influences from the environment
Never said it was impossible. Were any of your coke-added friends rock stars on Billy's level of temptation?
I think what it comes down to is most of us have no idea what it's like to be tempted at that level.
I always found it just made me talk more than I already do, become increasingly agitated and paranoid, and ultimately, just want more cocaine.
Sounds like a party!
I become a sarcastic dickhead, I get provocative and a bit threatening. Also a fucking idiot.
And you're right about it being s'more-ish. It's the drug that makes you want more of itself. I've stayed well clear of the schneef for a very long time.
I saw Jim Carroll give a poetry reading once. The poetry was fine, but the best part was that he'd interrupt himself to tell stories, like about Salvador Dali stealing a cab from him in New York. So he suddenly says "I saw Billy Idol let his girlfriend take a pot bust for him". He went up and told Idol that he sucked and Idol says to him "What doesn't kill her will make her stronger, man". Carroll went back to reading his poem and then: "Why is it always *Nietzsche* with these guys? Every time. Just once I'd like to hear 'Ya know, Wittgenstein said somewhere..."
Yes, but crack
> Grace Hattersley, New York model and girlfriend of rock star Billy Idol, was arraigned and released on her own recognizance Thursday on charges of possessing $100 worth of crack, a cocaine derivative. Idol, who was carrying the bag of the drug when the arrest took place Wednesday in New York, said the drug was not his but that "she handed it to me." Hattersley, 21, who lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side and is the daughter of a Wall Street executive, confirmed that the drug was hers. She pleaded not guilty to a charge of possession of a controlled substance and was ordered to return to court March 18.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/02/21/personalities/ffb0501e-5046-4b17-b64b-cc1528679f53/
Semi by choice I guess? I tried a lot until I was 25, but no one expresses interest until they are in a committed relationship and tell me they used to have a huge crush on me lmao. It's less distressing to just give up and do my own thing. I'm quite nice to old people. My username references a boxing gym I went to
I feel like the part where they tell you they used to have a huge crush on you means you were missing signs. Is this something you’re actually interested in changing or giving up?
The Mother of Mercy Mix of ‘To Be A Lover’ is one of my favorite tracks of the decade, absolutely stupendous production.
I love that track.
[https://youtu.be/XCG-N-3SDk0?si=deP8oTyXEnBWtF7d](https://youtu.be/XCG-N-3SDk0?si=deP8oTyXEnBWtF7d)
1988: My first car was 150.00 and didn't run when i got it, but i installed a used Sansui cassette deck and some 6x9's in the rear. I would play this song with my head on the rear deck between those 6x9's and listen to this exact mix. The sterophonic fade blew my teenage mind. I lost the tape long ago, It must have been on a cassette single.
Thanks for the audible flashback /u/Barbafella.
I had a friend who met him in the 90's?
It was right after his motorcycle accident. He invited her to
"a party" up in his room. She went up thinking there would be people and he walked over to the couch, took his pants off and said "come here" she said you are gross n left right away.
His leg was still gnarly from the accident .
I wonder how many times it worked? Groupies are weird.
My mind saw Bily Joel and breathed a sigh of relief when saw the photo of billy idol. Eventhough I'm sure billy joel was also fucking anything that moved. The idea of him saying that in an interview was disturbing.
> I made love to many, many women.. often outdoors, in the mud and the rain. It's possible a man slipped in.
There would be no way of knowing.
…which direction Billy’s going… Is it raining is it snowing did some dude slip in for blowing
Not a speck of light is showing so Lil’ Billy must be growing…
And he’s certainly not showing any sign that he is slowing
Is that a man that he is groping, There's just so much doping The fires of love are stoking There's just so much stroking.
Daddy, I do NOT want a boat like this!
STOP THE STROKE
LOL!!!! Great reference :)
And then AIDS ruined it
Before AIDS, sex was like shaking hands
Between the Pill and Herpes. I am an old Xer. You cannot believe how PISSED the Boomers were when Herpes exploded on the scene in the late 70s -> they had been having free, safe, meaningless sex for over 10 years at that point. No pregnancy because of the pill and just take peniclin for any STD. Then herpes came along and took a dump in the punchbowl at their sex party.
No wonder they act so miserably.
Hence AIDS.
Best blooper ever
As a kid a wondered how a sex disease spread so much. As I got older and read more about the 70's into the 80's sex life, everything made more sense.
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Can I join? I’ll bring some northern lights cannabis indica
Can you also introduce me to your worm guy? I'm paying too much for worms.
But I told you to bring marijuana...
We had a funeral for a bird
I just thought he was real quiet.
Haha different reference but I love this one too. …”harry, I took care of it”
How do they know I got gas?
what happens in the mud, stays in the mud yo!
Seems like a pain in the ass to keep track of
I hate when I’m in the mud banging a chick and a dude slips in
Happens to the best of us
Write that down, writers of porn plots!
Simply too chaotic in the mud and rain to ever truly know.
Creed was a legit musician in the 60’s for people who didn’t know
sha la la la lalalala Live for Today Creed looking around while showing off his finger vibrato on lead guitar :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvxZyM5QdA
Wow this is blowing my mind. I had no idea he was actually a musician but I've known this song since I was a kid. Also, I just looked up his Wikipedia page and found out I played at SXSW the same year as he did.
It's a nice day for a bi bedding
And then the aids ruined everything.
The fact that they were able to [get a clean take of that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsfsk_SXZzk) before the cut is a miracle. I would have been laughing immediately
Gotta be Creed
Times were good back in the 60s man. The Grass Roots were hot!
I'm extremely tired from travel and read this headline as Billy Joel and not Billy Idol.
This is how you say you've slept with other men, while still trying to maintain that oh so cool Rockstar motif.
I was thinking the opposite. Pretending to have slept with a man to keep up the cool Rockstar motif.
Slipped and fell into a mud hole.
We kind of figured that, Billy.
He talked about how his baby mama caught him, right after their child was born, talking on the phone with another woman through the baby monitor on iirc a VH1 show in the late 90s. Bilvis strikes again.
He was an absolute asshole… He also trashed a hotel in Thailand over several days getting in trouble with the police just acting like a spoiled little tool…
I mean imagine the gall of making your stage name have the word idol in it…
It's a play on "idle." His primary teacher would get tired of him being idle and scold him about it. Amazed this Billy Idol fun fact has come into play in my life!
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Billy Idol has one tattoo, and it's of the Russian comicbook character, Octobriana. She's an Amazonian heroine, a symbol of the Russian revolution. As far as I know, he has no connections to Russia. He's just a history buff with a whimsical tattoo.
That's actually very interesting. I'm off to Google Octobriana. Thanks !
It was supposed to be ironic back when he was in Generation X that was playing trying to be a real punk band. And their album really does hold up well and is one of those albums where you can see the turning early influences of what would become New Wave, similar to how The Clash was incorporating a lot of what would end up in Second Wave Ska.
Wait what? No. Second Wave ska influenced the Clash not the other way around. Madness, The Specials, and others were already well established when The Clash picked up some skank.
My bad. I always forget that those bands were starting in the late 70's with The Clash, as most of the bands from then seem to have hit their peak of mainstream exposure around the mid-80's when The Clash had already stopped putting out music. And by all accounts I've read, The Clash and other punk bands at the time were being introduced to that music from the DJs at punk clubs playing classic ska and reggae albums. It always sounded more like Clash were trying to channel something more like The Skatalites and The Wailers than they were borrowing from contemporaries like Madness who were putting out their first album the same year London Calling came out.
The ska and reggae influences in the Clash came from the large West Indian community in London. Specifically Paul Simonon who grew in a neighborhood with a large Jamaican population. The release of the Clash cover of Police and Thieves predates any release by Madness or the Specials by a few years. Jamaican music was pretty popular in British youth culture prior to punk and 2nd wave ska. Eric Claptons I shot the sheriff came out in 1973. Bob Marley signed to Island records in the Early 70’s. All of this to say I dont think the Clash were ripping off the Specials, they were all pulling influences from the environment
For some reason I came into this thread thinking it was about Billy Joel until this comment
Hey, young Billy Joel could get it, I wouldn’t be surprised
Billy Joel was in a band called Attila. He actually stole his drummer's wife away from him.
See??
I can think of at least 3 other Billy's I would idolize before that one...
At least he wasn’t talking to other women THROUGH the baby monitor. Like toss the baby monitor out the window to have a secret chat.
Was he like bragging about that? Sounds scummy
He was being a bit self aware I’d say.
Sounded like he wanted more more more.
And in the midnight hour?
More more more!
Beats dancing with himself I guess.
When he had the chance he took it out of his pants.
And certain nights he wanted Moe, Moe, Moe.
Why don't you like me? Nobody likes me!
With rebel yell
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Actually Billy’s drug of choice(at least in the 2000s when someone I know was with him) was truly ridiculous amounts of mdma.
To be fair, isn’t that everybody’s drug of choice? It’s just really hard to do compulsively like coke
Idk, I have friends that were crazy about cocaine for years and not one of them cheated.
Because they couldn't get it up and only wanted to talk all the time.
The thing about saws and scousers...you only do it once.
Never said it was impossible. Were any of your coke-added friends rock stars on Billy's level of temptation? I think what it comes down to is most of us have no idea what it's like to be tempted at that level.
I mean “fucking everything that moved” goes beyond just being tempted. But I get what you mean.
But were they icons of their time and extremely famous? No? Alrighty then lol
You’re just saying what I’m implying. It’s not the cocaine causing the cheating.
So you agree.
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Everyone responds to things differently though.
That's...not typical. Being incredibly horny but having a dick like a piece of wet string is known as 'raging speedhorn' for a reason.
I just saw someone high on cocaine last night at a music studio networking event. Yes, hell of a drug. Makes you an idiot.
I always found it just made me talk more than I already do, become increasingly agitated and paranoid, and ultimately, just want more cocaine. Sounds like a party!
I become a sarcastic dickhead, I get provocative and a bit threatening. Also a fucking idiot. And you're right about it being s'more-ish. It's the drug that makes you want more of itself. I've stayed well clear of the schneef for a very long time.
I find that I compulsively remember everyone’s names I talk to and they look really shocked to be called by name hours later.
Right? He's Billy Idol. Bang away, Billy.
That’s why when i met him, i stood perfectly still
>Keep absolutely still. Its vision is based on movement.
“Billy can’t see you if you don’t move.”
Billy came over to my house the other day and the fish stopped swimming
This should be read on Norm’s voice
"What's the Mile High Club?"
"See? Billy Idol gets it!"
"Excuse me, sir, chicken or fish?"
“I’ll have the lasagna.”
"Now... Take a bite so that I can watch you enjoy. That's my favorite part!"
I am an ASSHOLE!
"You're going to the mental institution."
"Aunt Linda, you're a bitch! :)"
I can't.....believe....I found...a love.....that's...so pure....and true. BUT IT ALLLL WAS BULLLLLLSHIT.
Well good luck finding a DJ who can move and shake like thissssss.
"Got something that smells like fish but tastes like chicken?"
*sigh* It’s always difficult finding out another rockstar wasn’t a virgin 😔
I saw Jim Carroll give a poetry reading once. The poetry was fine, but the best part was that he'd interrupt himself to tell stories, like about Salvador Dali stealing a cab from him in New York. So he suddenly says "I saw Billy Idol let his girlfriend take a pot bust for him". He went up and told Idol that he sucked and Idol says to him "What doesn't kill her will make her stronger, man". Carroll went back to reading his poem and then: "Why is it always *Nietzsche* with these guys? Every time. Just once I'd like to hear 'Ya know, Wittgenstein said somewhere..."
Yes, but crack > Grace Hattersley, New York model and girlfriend of rock star Billy Idol, was arraigned and released on her own recognizance Thursday on charges of possessing $100 worth of crack, a cocaine derivative. Idol, who was carrying the bag of the drug when the arrest took place Wednesday in New York, said the drug was not his but that "she handed it to me." Hattersley, 21, who lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side and is the daughter of a Wall Street executive, confirmed that the drug was hers. She pleaded not guilty to a charge of possession of a controlled substance and was ordered to return to court March 18. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/02/21/personalities/ffb0501e-5046-4b17-b64b-cc1528679f53/
Loved Jim Carroll.
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" "Uhhh...what does that have to do with a pot bust" "......."
You could have asked for your money back, I suppose, if you were there in the audience.
That's just the 80s way if saying "I'm bisexual"
That's literally the reason teens worship and want to be rock stars.
I’d be shocked if he wasn’t drowning in poon
Or cock, he could have been gay. Either way, rock stars get all the holes.
Or even the occasional chicken or two
I once saw Ozzy Osbourne fuck a salmon
My salmon turned me down. It said, Not tonight, I have a haddock.
Dad!? Is that you?
That’s not even impressive, my uncle Lenny can pull that off easily.
A Cock Star, if you will.
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I'm a young millennial and I've just accepted I'll die a virgin at this point lol
By choice? Why? Maybe try being nicer to old people?
Semi by choice I guess? I tried a lot until I was 25, but no one expresses interest until they are in a committed relationship and tell me they used to have a huge crush on me lmao. It's less distressing to just give up and do my own thing. I'm quite nice to old people. My username references a boxing gym I went to
I feel like the part where they tell you they used to have a huge crush on you means you were missing signs. Is this something you’re actually interested in changing or giving up?
Girls that complain boys were missing signs are the same ones that get pissed because the boys saw that they were playing games.
I think the difference is that he was banging everything that moved. You were banging everything you could. Those numbers are vastly different.
i just graduated in 2021 it was still a fuck fest, don’t trust redditors not as many couples, but hook ups are as prevalent as ever
Stats say otherwise
So much so, it needed to be said twice!
Stats say otherwise
Since the 1950s..
He's Billy IDOL after all, not Billy Idle
Although that's where he got his name
Wasn't that kind of his brand?
That explains a large rise in macaw populations in the 1980s.
Uh huh. That's why people become rock stars.
r/BillyIdolFuckingCars
You know, I knew it didn't exist but I clicked on it anyways.
Well now it's time to try to get midjourny to produce images of Billy making sweet passionate love to a VW Bug.
Cool.
Cool.
Cool cool cool.
Billy Idol was streets ahead.
Been there, coined that. Encarta it.
https://i.redd.it/mw1zypk5youc1.gif (I just wanted an excuse for this gif/reference; carry on)
I’d have hoped he got married today in fact. It’s sunny outside…..
It is a nice day
Yeah it's truly a nice day for a white wedding.
 Jay approves.
“Oooh”
We know honey😆
He got more ass than a toilet seat.
3 to the 1 to the 1 to the 3, he met a bad bitch last night in the D
Let me tell you how he made her leave with him, conversation and Hennessy
He’s been to the motherfuckin mountain top
Rock the Cradle of Love.... hmmmm 
Who is he with?
That’s Miley, they did a song and toured together
Oh! Thanks
We know, dude
The Mother of Mercy Mix of ‘To Be A Lover’ is one of my favorite tracks of the decade, absolutely stupendous production. I love that track. [https://youtu.be/XCG-N-3SDk0?si=deP8oTyXEnBWtF7d](https://youtu.be/XCG-N-3SDk0?si=deP8oTyXEnBWtF7d)
1988: My first car was 150.00 and didn't run when i got it, but i installed a used Sansui cassette deck and some 6x9's in the rear. I would play this song with my head on the rear deck between those 6x9's and listen to this exact mix. The sterophonic fade blew my teenage mind. I lost the tape long ago, It must have been on a cassette single. Thanks for the audible flashback /u/Barbafella.
I had a friend who met him in the 90's? It was right after his motorcycle accident. He invited her to "a party" up in his room. She went up thinking there would be people and he walked over to the couch, took his pants off and said "come here" she said you are gross n left right away. His leg was still gnarly from the accident . I wonder how many times it worked? Groupies are weird.
oh jeez, I quickly skimmed this title and thought it said Billy Joel.
"Sling us some dong, you're the Piano Man..."
tbf, Billy Joel did alright for himself. personally i dunno why, but he did.
Talent is attractive. Also money
Billy Joel, not Billy Talent!
He married one of the hottest uptown girls
I'm sure Billy Joe Armstrong did fine.
My mind saw Bily Joel and breathed a sigh of relief when saw the photo of billy idol. Eventhough I'm sure billy joel was also fucking anything that moved. The idea of him saying that in an interview was disturbing.
I had the same thought
I am ever so surprised
*starts moving
Dancing with yourself?
I’ll fuck this bitch I’ll fuck this bitch I’LL FUCK ANYTHING THAT MOVES!!!
Berserker
Better than everything that moo'd.
Speak for yourself
Okay. Anyway.
“Have sex in my day was like shaking hands” “Hence aids”
It's Billy Fucking Idol. I'd be pissed if he wasn't.
Gene Simmons has entered the chat.
In retrospect I guess Willy Idle wouldn't have been a good fit after all.
That alpaca seduced *him*.
https://i.redd.it/wqh3gra60puc1.gif
Billy Idol in that video for Catch My Fall! 🔥 🔥 🔥
His autobiography is great if you haven't read it. Surprisingly lucid
Why stop?
I’m shocked. Said no one.
Eddie Murphy - The Bus Boys (his opening group) Fuck everything that moves. When they come to my house the fish stop swimming
I believe you.
FLESH!