For Immediate Release
Chrysalis Records To Release Generation X Anthology on April 8, 2003
3-CD Set of Billy Idol’s Original Band To Feature
Singles Collection/B-Sides Disc, Unreleased Sweet Revenge Album
And Never Released Live Record
(January 28, 2003 – Hollywood, CA) Chrysalis Records will release the long awaited Generation X Anthology on April 8, 2003. Fronted by William Broad, who later morphed into the snarling lipped, spiky white-haired international punk rock star Billy Idol, Generation X was a hugely influential product of the 1976 UK punk explosion. Now, for the first time, this 3-CD collection brings together all of the band’s singles and unreleased material that includes a second album and a live concert.
Generation X began when Broad and Tony James met in a Soho pub. Having hit it off, the pair joined a friend’s band, ‘Chelsea’, which they soon left, taking the drummer, John Trowe with them. They then went on to form Generation X (named after a book, which focused on the battles between the “Mods” and the “Rockers” in 1960s England.) The band defied the ‘ideals’ expected from true punk bands of the era, and managed to cross over into the pop market.
· Disc 1 is the complete singles collection together for the first time on one album, including B-sides and previously unreleased tracks from a planned covers album
· Disc 2 is the previously unreleased ‘Sweet Revenge’ album and also contains an exclusive interview with one of the band originators, Tony James
· Disc 3 is an unreleased live recording from 1978 of Generation X in Osaka, Japan
· The artwork contains rare band photographs and memorabilia
* Disc 1 *
1. Dancing With Myself
2. Fridays Angels
3. Your Generation
4. Ready, Steady Go
5. Untouchables
6. Valley Of The Dolls
7. Day By Day
8. Wild Youth
9. Prime of Kenny Silvers pts 1 & 2
10. Wild Dub
11. One Hundred-Punks
12. King Rocker
13. Kiss Me Deadly
14. Gimmie Some Truth
15. New Order
16. English Dream
17. Youth, Youth, Youth
18. Rock’n’Roll
19. The Hunter
* Disc 2 *
Sweet Revenge (previously unreleased album)
2. Dancing With Myself
3. Girls
4. Modern Boys
5. Cathy Come Home
6. Revenge
7. Flash As Hell
8. Anna Smiles
9. Psycho Beat
10. Stars Looked Down
mixes
11. I Dig Everything
12. Dancing With My Wealth
13. Exclusive Interview with Tony James
* Disc 3 *
2. This Heat
3. English Dream
4. Triumph
5. Anna Smiles
6. Night Of The Cadillac’s
7. No No No
8. Valley of the Dolls
9. Revenge
10. Kiss Me Deadly
11. Friday’s Angels
12. Wild Youth
13. Day By Day
14. King Rocker
15. Your Generation
16. Rock’n’Roll
17. Shakin’ All Over
18. Youth Youth Youth
19. Outro Jam
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