Dancing with Myself (A Bestselling Musician Memoir)

Dancing with Myself (A Bestselling Musician Memoir)

A Rolling Stone Top 10 Best Music Books of the Year

â€œThatâ€™s what Iâ€™m talking aboutâ€¦Of all these memoirs, Dancing With Myself was the only one that stimulated my envyâ€”made me want to be Billy Idol for five minutesâ€¦.Heâ€™s a genuine romantic, writing in a kind of overheated journalese about his London punk rock rootsâ€¦and then falling head over heels for Americaâ€ (James Parker, The New York Times Book Review).

An early architect of punk rockâ€™s sound, style, and fury, whose lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into popâ€™s mainstream as one of MTVâ€™s first megastars, Billy Idol remains, to this day, a true rock â€˜nâ€™ roll icon.

Now, in his New York Times bestselling autobiography, Dancing with Myself, Idol delivers an electric, â€œrefreshingly honestâ€ (Daily News, New York) account of his journey to fameâ€”from his early days as front man of the pioneering UK punk band Generation X to the decadent life atop the dance-rock kingdom he ruledâ€”delivered with the same in-your-face attitude and fire his fans have embraced for decades. Beyond adding his uniquely qualified perspective to the story of the evolution of rock, Idol is a brash, lively chronicler of his own career.

A survivorâ€™s tale at its heart, this sometimes chilling and always riveting account of one manâ€™s creative drive joining forces with unbridled human desire is unmistakably literary in its character and brave in its sheer willingness to tell. With it, Billy Idol is destined to emerge as one of the great writers among his musical peers.

â€œI 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, Iâ€™ve put it all down, every bit from the heart. Iâ€™m going on out a limb here, so watch my back.â€ â€”Billy Idol
Country USA
Brand Touchstone
Manufacturer Touchstone
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2015-09-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451628517

Country	USA
Brand	Touchstone
Manufacturer	Touchstone
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2015-09-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451628517

Dancing with Myself (A Bestselling Musician Memoir)

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