Legendary British-American rock icon Billy Idol joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about being a Beatles fan “in real time,” the U.S. vs. U.K. music scenes, the 40th anniversary of “Rebel Yell” and much more on our sixth season premiere episode of “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Idol, who blazed through the 1980s with such megahits as “Dancing with Myself” and “White Wedding,” first achieved fame in the 1970s with the London area punk bands Chelsea and Generation X. But his introduction to music began at a very young age, with his mother’s Irish family being “quite musical” and even having a family band.
