Dancing with Myself -- Billy Idol

<b>A <i>Rolling Stone</i> Top 10 Best Music Books of the Year </b> <p/><b>"That's what I'm talking about...Of all these memoirs, Dancing With Myself was the only one that stimulated my envy--made me want to be Billy Idol for five minutes....He's a genuine romantic, writing in a kind of overheated journalese about his London punk rock roots...and then falling head over heels for America." --James Parker, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> </b> <p/><b>In this highly original memoir--following Billy Idol from his childhood in England to his rise to fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution--the iconic superstar tells the real story behind the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that he is so fabulously famous for, in his own utterly indelible voice.</b> <p/>An early architect of punk rock's sound, style, and fury, whose lip-curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into pop's mainstream as one of MTV's first megastars, Billy Idol remains, to this day, a true rock 'n' roll icon. <p/>Now, in his <i>New York Times</i> bestselling autobiography, <i>Dancing with Myself, </i>Idol delivers an electric, "refreshingly honest" (<i>Daily News, </i>New York) account of his journey to fame--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 ruled--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