<<What do you know about the Joni-Idol thing?>> >From her 1988 CMIARS promo-CD:
DJ: What about "Dancin' Clown" then with Billy Idol? This is the one when we first read about this in some of the gossip papers here some months ago, some people were saying what is she doing now? Because people remembered your adventures into jazz, and this seemed to be another venture that was going to surprise us. The combination works. How did you come across Billy Idol? JM: Well, we were sitting in the Grammys, my husband and I, and Billy was performing, and he was great that night. I just thought he was fantastic. The old spirit, the original spirit of rock and roll, was very much there and plus there was a new energy. It was both modern and nostalgic. And I said to Larry, "God, wouldn't he make a great Rowdy Yates?" And it's something that I've done a little bit of in my songs -- well, often I would do my own characters, like the waitress in "The Last Time I Saw Richard," you know, "drink up now / it's getting on time to close." So I would disguise my voice and play these characters anyway. So the natural evolution is to begin casting, which I did some of on the last album. Rod Steiger plays the preacher. So it was a natural extension of things I've been playing around with for years. " If you want to know more, just search our article database for "Billy Idol". Horses? Dancing Clown's got nuttin' to do with horses. Bob NP: Dave Edmunds, "Girls Talk"
