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Billy Idol Wanted More, More, More Anthems
“Why wouldn’t I want that attention?”
I mean, ‘Street Fighting Man,’ ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash,’ and ‘Rebel Yell’ all have a similar feel to them.’ They looked at each other and went, ‘I don’t think we would.’” Idol knew, at that moment, he could reverse engineer those two words into greatness. I remember one night I was walking down some stairs and thought of a hit single Nick Gilder had a couple of years earlier, “Hot Child in the City.” There’s no refraction on his song. I definitely wanted to open up Charmed Life with an anthem.I remember after a third version thinking I nailed it, and my producer was like, “Nope, not quite there, Billy, it needs to be more anthemic.” We all worked really hard making it a lead, hit single from the start.
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