Billy Idol recalls playing at gay clubs in the early days of his career: “It was very embracing”

A lot of the clubs that were putting on punk things were usually gay clubs. We even did a tour–The White Wedding Tour–was like that. We were playing a lot of these little clubs. [They] were gay clubs that, on Tuesday night, they went punk.

It was very embracing. People who didn’t feel like they fit in what for whatever reason. Could be a gender thing, it could be a cross-dressing thing, or it just could be you just didn’t feel like you–people would say today, you didn’t feel like you’re being seen. You know, that’s what we felt like.

In England, we were being told, ‘You don’t have a chance of future, there’s no future for you.’ This is seriously what we’re being told. And so

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