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Billy Idol: Billy Then, Idol Now

Kris Needs, Creem, March 1987

"I HOPE IF I get it right, it'll be a great record. If I get it wrong, it'll be in the trash-bin. I wouldn't be surpris­ed if it bombed!" That was Billy Idol talk­ing earlier this year when he broke off the Whiplash Smile album sessions to do a single interview (which appeared in the August issue of this magazine).

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