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But as the end of the millennium approached and the zeitgeist grew increasingly high-technological, it seems to have occurred to the former William Michael Albert Broad that, if he couldn’t be a punk, he could perhaps be a cyber-punk instead.Īs bad luck would have it, the biomechanical had already intruded onto Idol’s life in the form of a steel rod implanted in his leg after a motorcycle accident. He may have come up in the 1970s as the frontman of Generation X, the first punk band to play Top of the Pops, but the hits he went on to make as an MTV-optimized solo artist in the 80s and 90s - “Eyes Without a Face,” “Cradle of Love” - sit less than easily with those origins. ![]() Billy Idol has long evaded straightforward musical classification, being a full-on star but one fully belonging to neither rock nor pop.
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