An underrated songwriter of his Generation...Happy Birthday William

English Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFeECCDiFU

The Prime Of Kenny Silvers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wud4BHjOi6E

Dancing With Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xlbImkTfFY

Happy Birthday Mr Broad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHdNjzQSadk

Excellent

Funny how nobody remembers Billy Idle. Mind you, he didn't try hard enough.

Billy Balfour wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:47 pm

Funny how nobody remembers Billy Idle. Mind you, he didn't try hard enough.

Happy Birthday Billy.. Top singer and Had some great songs.Also survived an horrendous motorbike crash in which he nearly lost his leg.

done some great stuff over the years, a lot of his distinctive sound is due to a brilliant guitarist steve stevens.

Can't stand him... Except one record 'Hot in the City' which I sing to myself going out but not last summer:

'Don't be afraid of the world we made on a hot summer's night'

I play the extended version of "eyes without a face " almost everyday !

Generation X never had much credibility among early teen punks in the late 70’s. Billy was far too pretty and to much of a poser. This wasn’t bad ‘though.
https://youtu.be/poc4TgOmpPM

Billy and his fellow Generation X members called for the bouncers who ejected me and my mates out of a bar in Douglas I.O.M we were pretty rowdy but not causing any trouble.
We had planned to go and watch them at The Lido the following night but found better entertaiment in the only Casino bar that was open in the UK at the time.

Holmeclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 30, 2020 6:20 pm

Generation X never had much credibility among early teen punks in the late 70’s. Billy was far too pretty and to much of a poser. This wasn’t bad ‘though.
https://youtu.be/poc4TgOmpPM

Way way to pretty to be taken seriously as a snarling punk,I loved " White Wedding" though

Steve1956 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:07 am

Way way to pretty to be taken seriously as a snarling punk,I loved " White Wedding" though

I'd rather have the look & physique of Billy than that scrawny John Lydon

Flesh For Fantasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpgnxykoqI

Massive Dancefloor hit in German clubland.

rufus lumley wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 30, 2020 6:36 pm

Billy and his fellow Generation X members called for the bouncers who ejected me and my mates out of a bar in Douglas I.O.M we were pretty rowdy but not causing any trouble.
We had planned to go and watch them at The Lido the following night but found better entertaiment in the only Casino bar that was open in the UK at the time.

Those were the days when Douglas IOM was rockin ‘ 70s and 80s...Went back four or five years ago...So sad to see it on its arse now ...

Rumpelstiltskin wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:56 pm

Those were the days when Douglas IOM was rockin ‘ 70s and 80s...Went back four or five years ago...So sad to see it on its arse now ...

Late 60's early 70's was great as well ..Midnight boat from Liverpool with toilets full of spew so you couldn't get in them.lol Drinking all day and great nights out in the Villiers hotel with groups on every night. Good times indeed. It's a while since I have been now.Shame it's gone downhill.

conyoviejo wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:10 pm

Late 60's early 70's was great as well ..Midnight boat from Liverpool with toilets full of spew so you couldn't get in them.lol Drinking all day and great nights out in the Villiers hotel with groups on every night. Good times indeed. It's a while since I have been now.Shame it's gone downhill.

Great times...Wonderful place in those days...Apart from TT week Douglas is as dead as a door nail...All the old haunts are long gone...Cheap flights to a whole new world these days...Where once the whole of Douglas seafront was uniformly only hotels and b and b’s now are a few struggling b and b’s amongst apartments and a mish mash of odds and sods...Still...Great memories...

KC and the Sunshine Band at the Lido was a great night . Went back 2 years ago stayed at the hotel that has the casino for a night the Lido that was next door was rubble.