Billy Idol Gets Army Escort out of Hotel

Billy Idol may well be best known for his eighties anthems ‘White Wedding’ and ‘Dancing with Myself’ but the singer is a punk at heart. As a foundational member of London’s burning punk scene as well as being a pillar of the scuzz punk group Generation X, Idol has rightly been seen as the archetypal rocker in many ways. Be it his bleached blonde hair or his permanently snarling lip, Idol has checked off most of the entries on a rock star’s bucket list. Of course, near the very top of that list is the ceremonial trashing of a hotel room. Every star has done it and every famous face enjoys it, no matter what they say. There must be something incredibly liberating about utterly destroying a fancy hotel room knowing that, in all likelihood, you wouldn’t be the one to foot the bill. But while you could throw a TV out the window like Led Zeppelin used to, or order hundreds of cakes and have a food fight as Keith Moon did, Billy Idol took things a little too far while staying in Thailand, causing so much chaos th