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Title: Don't Stop
Artist: Billy Idol
Genre: Post-Punk
Released: 1981
Tracks:
1 - Mony Mony - 5:03
2 - Baby Talk - 3:14
3 - Untouchables - 3:36
4 - Dancing With Myself - 4:54 -
5 - Interview conducted by MTV VJ Martha Quinn - 12:49
Overview:
Artist: Billy Idol
Genre: Post-Punk
Released: 1981
Tracks:
1 - Mony Mony - 5:03
2 - Baby Talk - 3:14
3 - Untouchables - 3:36
4 - Dancing With Myself - 4:54 -
5 - Interview conducted by MTV VJ Martha Quinn - 12:49
Overview:
Don't Stop is Billy Idol's first solo record. Released in the US in 1981, it contains a version of Tommy James and the Shondells UK #1 "Mony Mony," that would become a later hit for him as a live version in 1987.
It also contains the song "Dancing with Myself", which had previously been a commercially unsuccessful single release for Idol's former band Gen X in the United Kingdom in 1980. "Dancing With Myself" (from that band's LP Kiss Me Deadly) was not re-recorded for the Don't Stop EP release but was remixed from Gen X's 6:05 minute long extended version of the song, and edited down into 4:50 minutes, from which a drum solo and chorus section were removed.
"Untouchables" is another Gen X song taken from the 1980 album Kiss Me Deadly, which was re-recorded for Don't Stop.
The EP peaked at #71 on the Billboard 200 and generated considerable anticipation for the full-length album Billy Idol, released the following year.
It also contains the song "Dancing with Myself", which had previously been a commercially unsuccessful single release for Idol's former band Gen X in the United Kingdom in 1980. "Dancing With Myself" (from that band's LP Kiss Me Deadly) was not re-recorded for the Don't Stop EP release but was remixed from Gen X's 6:05 minute long extended version of the song, and edited down into 4:50 minutes, from which a drum solo and chorus section were removed.
"Untouchables" is another Gen X song taken from the 1980 album Kiss Me Deadly, which was re-recorded for Don't Stop.
The EP peaked at #71 on the Billboard 200 and generated considerable anticipation for the full-length album Billy Idol, released the following year.