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Generation X albums featuring Billy Idol
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| | Kiss Me Deadly CD (1981)
 $10.69 
The band that launched Billy Idol's career, British punks Generation X presented 15 tracks on their third and final albums, which features accompaniment from former Sex Pistol Steve Jones.
Idol and bassist Tony James rehearse for their post-Gen X careers, respectively ...
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| Perfect Hits 1975-1981 CD (1985)
$9.35  
Besides attempting to be the definitive Generation X compilation, Perfect Hits 1975 -- 1981 seeks to give the band punk credibility with its erroneous title (the band formed in late 1976). The collection wisely focuses on their vastly superior debut ...
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| Generation X CD (1979) (Import) United Kingdom
$9.49 
GENERATION X has been re-released on EMI's The Gold Collection (52957) and retitled ORIGINAL DEBUT ALBUM.
Originally released on Chrysalis (1169) under the title GENERATION X.
This debut release from U.K. rock band Generation X, featuring singer Billy Idol, includes "From The ...
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| Valley Of The Dolls CD (1979) (Import) United Kingdom
$9.99 
Billy Idol's solo posturing and Tony James' excruciating work with Sigue Sigue Sputnik have long provided cheap targets for rock critics (and cheap-seat entertainment for undiscriminating fans). But ridicule should not be so readily heaped on former employers, Generation X. ...
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 Generation X Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Generation X songs: King Rocker Lyrics, Dancing With Myself Lyrics, Your Generation Lyrics, Ready Steady Go Lyrics, Wild Youth Lyrics, One Hundred Punks Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs From the Heart Lyrics, English Dream Lyrics, Gimme Some Truth Lyrics, Day by Day Lyrics, Youth Youth Youth Lyrics, Valley of the Dolls Lyrics, Shakin All Over Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Paradise West Lyrics, Running With the Boss Sound Lyrics, Friday's Angels Lyrics, Night of the Cadillacs Lyrics, Invisible Man Lyrics, Kleenex Lyrics.
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Generation X Biography
One of the first truly successful bands of the first wave of British punk, Generation X (or Gen X, as they were later called) boasted the charismatic singing and movie-star pout/sneer of Billy Idol, and hooky, danceable, though relatively apolitical, tunes that bridged the gap between raw punk and classic 1960s pop. The band released two charting albums in the late '70s, and broke up while recording the third. Billy Idol went on to become an MTV heartthrob, and guitarist Tony James led the trendy youthquakers Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
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Contemporaries
The Clash, The Damned, Blondie, The Stranglers, The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Pretenders, The Vibrators, All, Sham 69, The Dictators, The Slits, Magazine, X-Ray Spex, The Undertones, The Saints (Punk), The Adverts, Eater
Followers
Green Day, blink-182, Duran Duran, Pennywise, Hole, Sugar Ray (Rock), A Flock of Seagulls, The Queers, The Dead Milkmen, The Muffs
Influences
The Kinks, Iggy & the Stooges, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, MC5, The Damned, Monkees, The Dictators, Tommy James & the Shondells (Rock), Brinsley Schwarz
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