Don't Stop (Billy Idol Album)
Don't Stop is Billy Idol's first solo release. Released in the US in late 1981, it contained a version of Tommy James and the Shondells UK #1 "Mony Mony", that would become a hit as live version in 1987 and "Dancing with Myself", the latter of which had also been a moderate hit for Idol's former band Generation X. "Dancing With Myself" (from Generation X's last LP Kiss Me Deadly) was not re-recorded for the Don't Stop EP release but was simply remixed from Generation X's 6:05 extended release of the song and edited down to a 4:50 version, in which a drum solo and chorus section were removed. The song "Untouchables" however, another Generation X song written by Idol and also from Kiss Me Deadly, was re-recorded for Don't Stop.
The EP peaked at number 71 on the Billboard 200 and generated considerable anticipation for the full-length album Billy Idol, released the following year.
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Famous quotes containing the words stop and/or idol:
“You are done for—a living dead man—not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the “mystery” of life. Not for nothing is hatred still the best tonic ever discovered, for which any organism, however feeble, has a tolerance.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that—the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”
—Emmuska, Baroness Orczy (1865–1947)