Billy Idol - reportagem no LA Weekly

O LA Weekly publicou hoje uma interessante reportagem sobre Billy Idol...

From the living room of his house, high up in the Hollywood Hills, Billy Idol gazes out across the Los Angeles Basin, remembering when the city was on fire.

      

"Even in the daytime, you could see the smoke," he says, describing his bird's-eye view of the Rodney King riots in April 1992. "And ash was raining out of the sky."

      

At the time of the riots, Idol was one of the biggest stars in rock. But privately, his life had been unraveling for some time. In 1989, he separated from his girlfriend of 10 years, dancer-choreographer Perri Lister, a split that sent him plunging deeper into drug abuse. A gruesome motorcycle accident in the heart of Hollywood the following year nearly cost him his leg.

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