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Billy Idol: This Charming Ham

Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 28 April 1990

BILLY IDOL has got plastered! He's got God! He's got dead! Rumours about the blond Bromley bombshell blast through the ether of Transatlantic rockgossip! Is Billy a born again boring bastard or is he still the shag-it-if-it-moves sexdevil rockpig we all know and hate? STEVEN WELLS went to investigate the legend behind the sneer.

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