Billy Idol and the overdose that almost cost him his life in 1984

On the occasion of Tribeca Film Festival in New York Cityyesterday -10 June – The new documentary was previewed “Billy Idol Should Be Dead“, who promises to retrace the career of the British musicianfrom the star of the underground to pop icon, between fame, difficulty with drugs and the return to music. Precisely on the occasion of the presentation of the Docu-Film, presented by Rocker himself as the “final documentary”, it has been revealed that Billy Idol has rIschiato life due to an overdose of heroin while he was in London, in 1984.

As told, the artist was at the height of success thanks to his second album, “Rebel Yell“, published in 1983 return to England as a sort of “tour of honor”to celebrate: “Because I made it“. It is then narrated:

“I was returning triumphant and I almost ruined everything. We flown to London and we met a nice group of friends. They had a very powerful heroine. Everyone made one or two lines and fell asleep, except me and a friend of mine. I was practically on the point of death. I was becoming blue. So they put me in a jelly water tank and led me to walk on the roof of the building”.

In the documentary, the singer therefore retraces the charm that drugs exerted over his years from extreme party during his years, saying that at the time it was something that the rock scene “embraced” openly. “A lot of people used it. But you know, you are completely exposed to that stuff. Many of the artists we loved were drug addicts“, The artist explained:” Lou Reed wrote a song entitled ‘Heroin’. You didn’t think about how dangerous it was. Indeed, you thought the opposite: perhaps it could free you, unlock something “.

As reported by “AOL”, in another moment of the documentary, Billy Idol says he definitively abandoned heroin after a wild journey to Bangkokduring which he and a friend caused damage to about 75,000 dollars in a hotel. The journey took place when his son Willem, born in 1988, was still a newborn baby. At one point, the musician remembers being passed out in an elevatorwith the doors that continued to open up and close on him. “Mel Gibson was on vacation with his family, upset,” reveals the artist. During that same living room, he also remembers having collected a large trunk and that he has thrown him against a window, making the police intervene: “The positive side is that I really put the heroine aside. The experience was too horrible. He really disgusted me“, he says in the docu-film:”Detoxifying heroin is one of the most horrible experiences that can be lived. Boy George said well: it’s as if the skeleton wanted to get out of your body. There is no shortcut. It is a very long process. Conti the days, the seconds, the hours. And even after six months, you still feel disgusting “.

Several times, in the past, Billy Idol has spoken of her drug addiction and her commitment to leave bad experience behind. In 2022, for example, the British musician spoke of it with low zane on Apple Music 1, explaining the event that marked the starting point for a new start It was a motorcycle accident which had in 1990.

The documentary “Billy Idol Should Be Dead” follows the publication of the new unreleased album “Dream Into it“(Here our review), released on April 30th over ten years later“Kings & Queens of the Underground” in 2014.