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Generation X (band) Generation X, 1977. L-R: Billy Idol, Tony James, Bob Andrews, and Mark Laff. Generation X (later known as Gen X) were an English punk rock band, formed in London in 1976. They were the musical starting point of the career of their frontman Billy Idol, [ 4] and issued six singles that made the UK Singles Chart and two albums ...
This is the discography of British punk rock band Generation X. Albums. Studio albums Title ... Gen X: Released: January 1981; Label: Chrysalis; Formats: 7", 12" 60
Billy Idol. William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is a British and American [ 1] singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of the group Generation X.
Dancing with Myself. " Dancing with Myself " is a song by the punk rock band Gen X, first commercially released in the United Kingdom in October 1980, where it reached number 62 on the UK Singles Chart. It was remixed and re-released by the band's singer/frontman Billy Idol as a solo artist in the United States in 1981, where the song reached ...
The Best of Generation X is a compilation album of English punk rock band Generation X.. It was released by Chrysalis Records in 1985 in response to the international success that the band's frontman Billy Idol had recently achieved, as well as the media interest generated by bassist Tony James' then current project, Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials.Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980.
Generation X was recorded at TW Studios in Fulham, West London, during November–December 1977, with the producer Martin Rushent and the engineer Alan Winstanley.. The band had previously worked with the producer Phil Wainman on prior singles, but had been dissatisfied with the results, critiquing his production as too "poppy" and polished, and sought a recorded sound for the album that ...
Gen X. Gen X, or those born from 1965 to 1980, grew up with punk rock, hip-hop and grunge. Some key historical moments that shaped Gen X include the end of the Cold War and the rise of laissez ...