The 2025 Tribeca Film Festival is full of music documentaries this year. The Billy Joel documentar is making headlines in light of his tragic recent diagnosis, but the festival is also hosting the world premiere of Billy Idol Should Be Dead, a documentary about punk rocker Billy Idol's rise to stardom in the 1970s and '80s.
In an interview with The Ankler, Idol talked about his storied career — and also dropped a rather scandalous little bombshell about fellow rocker Sting.
The Ankler asked Idol about the famous 1991 Saturday Night Live sketch where the late Phil Hartman hosted "The Sinatra Group" as the legendary crooner Frank Sinatra. His "guests" included Chris Rock as Luther Campbell, Victoria Jackson as Eydie Gorme, Mike Myers as Steve Lawrence, the late Jan Hooks as Sinead O'Connor and host/musical guest Sting as Idol.
Idol tells The Ankler that the sketch was "really funny" and that later, he was told a story by Sting's wife Trudie about the aftermath.
"Sting’s wife, Trudie, told me that when he went into the dressing room after playing me, she got him to have sex with him as me," said Idol. "So that was a great caveat to the sketch. She said, 'F**k me as Billy Idol.' And he did."
Idol also relayed the fraught relationship he had with his father, WilliamBroad, for a long time, including how Idol wasn't sure he wanted his parents to see him in the hospital after he almost died of a drug overdose, which the documentary touches on.
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"In a way, I frightened my parents to death. You hurt people when they don’t understand what you are as a person, when they don’t know the you inside, really," said Idol, adding, "My parents couldn’t understand punk rock."
He added, "When I was young, my dad and I were really good friends; we loved each other, you know? It was only when I was a teenager that things really went sour, and they stayed like that for a long time. It was kind of horrible, really. But I was glad they cared about me and that they were worried for me [after the drug overdose]."
Billy Idol Should Be Dead premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday, June 10.
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