One of the longer lines at BEA (Book Expo America) on opening day was for Billy Idol. Stars always seem to trump the usual authors/suspects (R.L. Stine, Mary Higgins Clark, Carl Hiaasen).
Billy's autograph (on a sampler from the book...his "Dancing with Myself" comes out in October) required not only standing in line, but standing on an earlier line to get the limited edition "ticket."
All this was very amusing to Billy, who in keeping with the masturbatory nature of his book title (and hit single), gleefully rubbed one of the sampler-chapter copies of the book against his crotch. Sorry I wasn't quite quick enough to get that shot, but you do get an evocative glower in the photo on the left.
It'll be a busy Spring, Summer and Fall for the Idol with the bright white hair...he's touring starting in June, and working on the completion of a new album to be released concurrently with the book.
Didn't know Mr. Idol was the literary type? The autobiography promises to raise eyebrows even higher than Billy likes to raise his own. As he says, in all modesty regarding himself and his book: “I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I am putting it all down, every bit from the heart. I am going out on a limb here, so watch my back.”
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