Miley’s hot take: “No one radiates more sexuality than Billy fucking Idol.” Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, featuring new interviews with the man himself, and including testimonials from Cyrus, Billie Joe Armstrong, Nile Rodgers, Patrick Stump of Fall out Boy, Pete Townshend, Duran Duran’s John Taylor, band members old and new, former lovers, and his sons and daughters – some of whom he didn’t know about until 21st century genetic tests – Billy Idol Should be Dead traces the arc of a music career that endured, often despite the singer’s wild behavior. And what Billy Idol learned is that he had something to say all along. “He’s definitely had nine lives,” Perry Lister says in Billy Idol Should be Dead. “But he always comes back.”
The Gist: “I just wanna get screwed to death!” Was it intentional, the way Billy Idol constantly referenced dying as the ultimate reward of
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