Idol has been talking about his new autobiography, “Dancing With Myself,” a 300-plus-page tome, much of which functions as a cautionary tale on the hazards of extreme drug abuse.

The new documentary “Billy Idol Should Be Dead,” which premiered at the Tribeca Festival on Tuesday, reveals how the punk rocker suffered a near-fatal overdose in 1984.

Billy Idol reveals he nearly died of a heroin overdose in London in 1984 in the new documentary 'Billy Idol Should Be Dead,' which premiered on June 10 at Tribeca Festival.

In 1981, Billy Idol moved from London, where he’d had some success with his punk band Generation X, to Manhattan. He found a one-room West Village apartment, at One Sheridan Square, where his ...