Punk Rock legend Billy Idol’s first full-length album of new music in over a decade, Dream Into It, makes its chart debut at #7 on the U.S. Top Albums Chart and #4 on the U.S. Current Rock Album Chart. The album includes performance and co-writing contributions throughout from Idol’s longtime guitarist/collaborator Steve Stevens plus appearances by Canada’s own Avril Lavigne, along with tour mate Joan Jett, and Alison Mosshart of The Kills. It’s produced by Tommy English (Kacey Musgraves, blink 182, BØRNS, K. Flay).  Lavigne joined Idol for an album trailer ahead of the record’s release, which is as good as any of his earlier stuff, showing that punk lives on forever!

 

Idol is currently on the road for It’s a Nice Day To…Tour Again! with Rock n Roller Joan Jett & the Blackhearts joining for all shows.  Tickets for the Toronto date on May 23, 2025 are available here.

Recently, Idol recently revealed that many of his early gigs in the 1980s were performed at gay bars, which worked perfectly as punks were considered outcasts as much as the gay community was at the time.

See below for a complete track list, and stream the new album here.

DREAM INTO IT
1. Dream Into It
2. 77 (featuring Avril Lavigne)
3. Too Much Fun
4. John Wayne (featuring Alison Mosshart)
5. Wildside (featuring Joan Jett)
6. People I Love
7. Gimme The Weight
8. I’m Your Hero
9. Still Dancing

Idol is also set for the premiere of the new documentary film Billy Idol Should Be Dead at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10. Directed by three-time Grammy-winner Jonas Åkerlund, Billy Idol Should Be Dead is a feature-length documentary tracing the life and career of the punk pioneer turned rock ‘n’ roll icon. Through never-before-seen archival and personal interviews with Idol, his family, peers and collaborators, the documentary digs deep into his emergence as a prototypical punk rocker, his meteoric rise as a global superstar in the MTV era and the myriad of challenges Idol had to overcome to not just survive, but to remain one of the most beloved figures in rock n roll, almost fifty years into his career. Additional details and tickets are available HERE.

ABOUT BILLY IDOL

For 46 years, recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-nominee Billy Idol has been one of the definitive faces and voices of rock’n’roll. Between 1977 and 1981, Idol released three albums with Generation X as their camera-ready frontman. In 1982, he embarked on a transatlantic/trans-genre solo career that integrated the bold and simple lines of punk and rock’n’roll decadence. With his longtime guitarist/collaborator Steve Stevens at his side, Idol has toured consistently around the world for the last ten years. Showing no signs of slowing down, Idol released both The Roadside EP in 2021 and The Cage EP in 2022 on Dark Horse Records, earning praise from fans and critics alike.

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