He wakes up fighting the ghost in his sleep. Steve Stevens told us about how he’ll wake up from a nightmare and still thinks he’s high for about 15 minutes. Like ‘Cage,’ it’s another thing that holds you back and you’ve got to break free. You’re in a dark void of your own making, really. Of course, drug addiction feels like you’re going nowhere.
We’ve been running away from these desires that we’ve built up in ourselves. “For us, the ghost we’ve been running from for years is the drug addiction we got involved with in the late ’70s and ’80s. Even though it was written during the pandemic, it could really apply to any time in your life when you feel society or everything around you is constraining you.” The lyrics practically wrote themselves because we were so in touch with what we’ve been going through. We all felt like we’d been living in Night of the Living Dead, where the zombies at the window have got in and we’ve had to make friends with them. So it was easy to come up with the idea that we all felt caged in. “Because we’ve been living with the coronavirus so long, we’d all gone through a couple of years of not really knowing what was gonna happen to us or what the long-term effects of the virus really were. It was a really fun experience.” Below, Idol discusses each track. We realized they could produce as well, so we started recording the music as we went. “We’d really enjoyed working with Joe and Tommy on the song ‘Bitter Taste’ from The Roadside EP, so we started writing with them. “We were writing it last December, so we’d lived with the coronavirus for a couple of years, and everyone had gone through a million lockdowns and things like that,” Idol tells Apple Music. He will be terribly missed.For the follow-up to his 2021 EP The Roadside, rock icon Billy Idol and his trusty longtime guitarist Steve Stevens reunited with songwriters Tommy English and Joe Janiak to create four songs centered around the pandemic. He has always remained a loyal and true friend to all of us, a great family man and, above all, a true gentlemen. We always, to this day, consider him to be part of the band. He helped guide the band to from playing to 12 people at our first gig to playing in front of 80,000 people at Castle Donington and having hit singles and albums.
No idea was too big and he instilled a confidence in us that made us all believe that anything was possible. Tommy was manager of The Almighty from day one, when the band first formed, it is fair to say that Tommy was as much an integral part of the band as any of the rest of us. Tommy was one of those people who, when you first met, you liked straight away, he had a huge zest for life, a fantastic work ethic and above all a huge sense of fun. The rest of us were lucky enough to meet him shortly after as, he was one of the main catalysts that started what was to become The Almighty. Tommy was their tour manager at that time and would later would go on to become their manager. Ricky first got to know tommy when he joined New Model Army as a live guitar player for their world tour back in 1987. Tommy managed The Almighty from 1988 to 1993 and even after we parted ways he remained a firm friend throughout. all our thoughts at this time are with his wife, Jube and children Ben, Thomas and Charlie. "Its with very heavy hearts and immense sadness that we have to announce that our friend and one time manager of the Almighty Tommy Tee passed away very suddenly on the evening of December 23rd. Long-running UK rockers THE ALMIGHTY have issued the following update:
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