Steve Stevens says he used toy ray guns to make Rebel Yell’s iconic solo “more than just notes” and execute the “space-age gunfighter solo” he had in his mind. The inspiration came from the “sonic ...

Growing up in New York — specifically in Queen’s Kew Gardens — a young Steven Schneider would go to see all-night rock and roll movies at the Eighth Street Playhouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Stevens is regarded as a rock legend. As if being Idol's long-term musical partner for forty years isn't enough, he is the man (and fingers) behind that epic riff on Michael Jackson's Dirty Diana. He ...

Guitarist Steve Stevens starred alongside Billy Idol on two of the greatest rock anthems of the ’80s — White Wedding and Rebel Yell. And with both songs, it was Stevens who landed the first blow with ...

It has been 35 years since British rocker Billy Idol’s self-titled debut album helped catapult him to stardom in the U.S. And with the music of the 1980s seemingly as popular as ever, it’s no wonder ...

In the early 1980s, Billy Idol exploded onto the American music scene with “Dancing with Myself,” the neo-punk anthem that he originally recorded with Generation X. He had recently left England for ...