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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

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Billy Idol
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 30
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William Michael Albert Broad
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