{"id":356652,"date":"2026-03-20T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356652\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:56:11","slug":"billy-idol-the-irish-side-of-my-family-has-got-a-lot-to-do-with-me-turning-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356652\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Idol: \u2018The Irish side of my family has got a lot to do with me turning to music\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ahead of the release of a candid new documentary, the former hellraiser talks about fame, excess and near-death experiences alongside his Cork heritage<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Billy Idol: 'Shocking society, being rebellious and loud, that\u2019s part of your MO when you\u2019re 20'. Photo: David Raccuglia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1David Raccuglia1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Billy Idol: &#8216;Shocking society, being rebellious and loud, that\u2019s part of your MO when you\u2019re 20&#8217;. Photo: David Raccuglia<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The artist and the act, the persona and the person behind it \u2013 these can often be hard to separate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Billy Idol, for fans in the 1980s, was a kind of cartoonish figure, a playful exaggeration of the \u2018punk rocker\u2019 archetype: spiked peroxide hair, leather strides and studded wristbands, omnipresent sneer, with bratty shock-the-parents swagger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the release of a candid new documentary, the former hellraiser talks about fame, excess and near-death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12207,93,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-356652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-darragh-mcmanus","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}