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Billy Idol: Nice Day for a New Album

Kris Needs, Creem, August 1986

LONDON: IT'S three in the morning and a rampant telephone slices the night silence. The caller is in New York, but the line is crystal clear. Familiar hoarse-hearty tones burst through my earpiece. I say hello to Billy Idol for the first time in four years.

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