Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen (Official Music Video) 

From 14 till 49 y.o.

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Never stopped listening to this masterpiece. Find Coral Castle a fascinating story that goes unsolved

Right now

I do!

@Dan Dugan I love Scotland!

I know right! Definitely one of the best artists of all time ❤️ under appreciated vocalist too!

Yes, Natalie, you're the only one in the world genius and enlightened enough to realize that this man, who happens to be famous and has been famous for the past 40 years, and has several billion views on his songs, is actually a talented man. We're all in awe at your ability to recognize talent and we all wish we could do the same.

I do from glasgow Scotland

I have to concur with you Natalie. I like BI back in his GenX days too. Always have, he was and is, special. I could never understand why his whiplash smile cassette was always to be seen in the bargain bins. I guess most people did not appreciate him. I do.

Good point

Talaga namang maganda ang kanta Niya 🎶✨☺️

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Brasil 🇧🇷

Absolutely!!

TROOF!!!!!

RIP 🙏

YOUR DAD HAD GREAT TASTE IN MUSIC LILLY ALWAYS CHERISH HIS MEMORIES BILLY IDOL WAS OUR ROCK AS KIDS AND AN AMAZING SINGER KEEP THAT LEGEND GOING SWEETHEART BLESSINGS TO YOU XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Sorry for loss, Lily. My dad passed away 6 months ago 😢. God bless your dad and mine too.

I'm sorry you lost your dad, it's one of the most difficult things we have to experience in our lives, losing our dear parents, all the memories, the Christmases and birthdays, so many special moments all left to our memories. You will see your dad again.

He had a really really good taste in music.....sorry for your loss

I never understood it until now, love it as i love Him

I never really got Idol's image. They tried desperately to market him as some kind of punk but his hits were pretty much pop. So it might have been this attempt of covering too many bases at once and some schtick getting in the way of doing things the rational way, ending up with a romantic song with him in the video showing the middlefinger.

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@@Schmidtelpunkt He was originally a punk though. He started his career playing in a Punk band called Generation X, which was part of the early British Punk scene alongside the likes of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and were the first Punk band to ever appear on the BBC show Top of the Pops, altough they were looked down upon and hated by many of the early punks who saw Billy and Gen X as "posers", because ever since then they were leaning towards a more "pop punk" sound, (altough the term hadn't been coined yet at the time), singing mostly about love and relationships and sex and other stuff like that, and they eschewed the nihilism, militant attitude and radical politics of the early Punk scene (they had a couple of attempts at political commentary on their first album, and played some concerts for "Rock against Racism", but other than that they never got into that stuff, and decided early on that they didn't want to get very political) . And also because they were never afraid to admit who influenced them ( the Beatles, The Stones, The Who, Elvis, Bowie, Gary Glitter, T-Rex, Slade etc.), which were acts that most punk bands were influenced by, but they wouldn't admit it because they didn't want to break "the Punk code", which meant that they were supposed to be opposed to all the "rock dinosaurs" that came before them. John Lydon from the Sex Pistols once famously called Billy Idol "the Perry Como of Punk". From what I understand Billy's image after he went solo was entirely his creation. He carefully crafted every detail, from his clothes to his hair and his stage moves. From what I understand he was trying to combine his earlier Punk style and persona with elements of Elvis, Gary Glitter and Bill Fury in their prime. Also, one of his first solo hits "Dancing with myself", was actually a re-recording of an earlier song of his from his time in Generation X, and was very much Punk, and a lot of his solo music did have a certain punk influence in it. Billy is just a very versatile musician that likes to experiment with a lot of different genres like Pop, New Wave, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Electronica etc.

Because almost every song Billy does is AMAZING

Thanks

Sweet Sixteen, her actual name was - Hermīne Lūse

Thanks Wikipedia❤😅

Una canción hecha una obra de arte ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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Do a little research on the crazy story about Agnes's 16 and Coral Castle in Homestead, FLORIDA. Trust me that Latvian guy was special!

i wish i was 16 and not 42 lol. and poor billy is 68 now

@@alexandersokolov6684 Yeah sure🤍

best gift for a sixteen birthday, imagine it was composed for you...on your father request

My dad did the same thing with me when I turned 18, he sent me Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen"

That's awesome

Your dad is one cool dude !

Lol am sixteen too but I don't have a dad 😢

I feel you. Another one is Don't cry tonight by Savage

@@djciko999 Yes! "Don't cry Tonight" is a masterpiece. Italian classic Italo-Electro.

Agree.

♥️

Totally agree...

I agree

a surreal song

Like ripping off other people's comments, eh?

ITs dedicated to a man who built Coral Castle. The mans girlfriend never saw it even though he dedicated it to her.

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:'(

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my condoleances maybe Billy Idols music helps him remember how he liked it...your brother lives forever in your heart, take care from Holland

sorry to hear your loss, love his voice as well!!

I have the similar story.

Same ...

Yes, times sure flies by, unfortunately; I remember buying this cassette (Whiplash Smile) back in 1987.

I Know exactly what you're talking about !

Me to and am 46 will be 47 on Saturday. He still great.

Me too… Strangely enough it kind of gives me the same feels as “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak. Haunting, intoxicating, incredibly sultry yet it also feels like heartache…💔❤️‍🩹

@@yankeeladee02 Ahh I was going to say the same thing! I always think of wicked games when I hear this song!

Well this song is based on real people. Real person that is

@@NEnigma777 FR THO

@@acecrowncat1439 Edward Leedskalnin and his love Agnes "Sweet Sixteen" Skuvst.

Completely agree.... He’s rude and tender at the same time !!! 😘

Love you

This song reminds me of the way Elvis Presley used to sing.

Gaby bashun

i couldnt have said it better. Perfect way to describe him

I will always love Billy.❤️his voice is so beautiful.❤️❤️❤️❤️

YESSSS. 😇🎉❤

I love his voice in this song, it sounds raw,deep and raspy

Yes he does. It's hauntingly good.

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Masterpiece now, today, tomorrow and always!

Zauvijek

Great description!

Totally agree. When I was young I didn't like hearing this song, because it gave me uncomfortable feeling. Like becoming sad or something like that. But as I grew older I started to value the feeling from this song, because actually it's the only song that's able to give me this unique feeling.

Look up voral cadtle homestead florida the song has to do w that

It's about the love story of the guy that built Coral Castle. He was engaged to marry a 16 year old girl who pulled out of the engagement. He ran to America and built Coral Castle in her memory.

It's about the creator of Coral Castle, Florida

happy birthday and me too!

@@brookreich happy bdayy

Bro you look 25

me too!! i’m 16 today!!!

@@cloroxbleach8661 happy bdayy! I hope you have an amazing one!

happy first day of being 17!! live it up 🩷. currently listening rn but i’m 15 gonna be turning 16 in october, but i feel you. why does time have to pass by so quickly i remember just turning 13 now three yrs later i’m already almost done with my teen years 😞 but we will be okay !! take care ❤️

This song is not about being 16. :)

Disfrutalo, el tiempo pasa volando

true

How lucky you are ! Where was this gig ? I can cry all my tears , but no show in France ... Here are my favorites :"Rebel yell " " Eyes without a face " " Blue Highway " . Not very original , sorry ...

I'm so glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s to

its true

Unrated as hell

I love stranger

Ohl oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh..............!!!!!!!

@@marcelavega4557 oui! Oui oui oui oui oui oui?

No, who is this guy? Jay Zee and Beyonce deserve to be in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame!

@@thomaskwiatkowskiesq.328 Stop just stop..

@@thomaskwiatkowskiesq.328 You are ironic, right?

@@thomaskwiatkowskiesq.328 trollboy lol

Thomas Kwiatkowski, Esq. you're kidding right?

Especially balanced against the current ugliness of the covid 'event'

@@ZekromReshiramVolt yes... definitely

i've never heard it period but it sounds cool and catchy :)

Love this song so much and yes, he is so before to look at 😍🔥

but did u get it

+Shane Anthony I couldn't agree more! I love this song.

+Shane Anthony Right on - I am a lover of women and will B to my last breath but I envy his good looks. He is awesome :) This song here is amazing. His best song IMHO :D ....Chris Isaak comes 2 mind but he can't touch this masterpiece....

+Shane Anthony talk about holding up. Me not being much or at all into music, I don't know alot of songs. I've heard it in the radio recantly and initially thought its a brand new song. It really sound very contemporary..

+Verithiell That's true. It doesn't have your typical synthesizer sound or a great sax/guitar solo which was a trademark in so many 80's songs. It's stripped down to a basic acoustic vibe and non specific to a particular decade.

+honeycat535 She might have been his sweet 16 back when they were both much younger. He might be looking back down the years. He might have written it when he was 18.... many explanations.

I am also. Feeling the same like you brother

Malcontent Yes- I feel the same..🤔✌💞

40 is young.

I'm 50 and it's always been the 80s. I get ridiculed about it but it works for me.. It's easy if ya try.

hearing you bring on time travel

That story is awesome and really spooky. I recognized Coral Castle in the opening photo, but never realised the relationship. Love this song even more now. To anyone else interested in a little supernatural Americana; look into Coral Castle. Dude may have harnessed a certain power...

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Bull shit. No grandad is that cool. :)

Da li znas da je Billy I. u illuminatima... : (

No, it was the name of the electrical thing, that made the sawing of the stones possible. Older thing had 8 points, and the "sweet sixteen" had 16 points. During the day He run a car to recharge the accumulators, and during the night, he used to saw the stones. As song tells "I could do anything" And so He did. Whole castle, that bufles even today.

@@observer6294 like the history lesson💯👍🇮🇪

абвгдђежзијклљмнњопрстћуфхцчџш been there 3 times . It's also on a key line

@@observer6294 Really, then why does he show a picture of the Coral Castle with Ed in it at the beginning of the video? I've been to the Coral Castle. There is a signed picture of Billy there because he did visit, and he was so taken with the story, that he wrote a song about it.

Легенда! Лучшая песня всех времён!

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отличный посыл. нечего добавить

да ряльна тож самое

Rusia fuerza Moscú

He just made an excellent new album

He's not dead hahaha

Brad Ozarko i go to a concert of him this summer. He is going to perform in the Netherlands 2018

What is the story behind this song sir?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Sixteen_(song)

Minha também! Abraço!

Eu gosto muito dessa e igualmente da Eyes Whithout a face. O cara é fera!

Kerry Howard Now we have to deal with shaking black asses and mambo jambo crap; sick era now lol

Kerry Howard He's hardly punk with this song. He gave up punk way before this came out. Please don't do that lame age thing either. If you actually tried to remember clearly, there was just as much crap music back then as there is now. The 80s was full of garbage music.

Kerry Howard amo você você é linda

Amen Texas Girl. :)

Lilr3d Ridinh00d absolutely

So many starting with.'my generation' & 'wild youth' then it went from there

And one of the best live performers

Нрависса очень !!!

Not only hot but talented too!

Brasil 2019

Do you want me to give you some ear buds, I think it isn't honey but pure earwax

What does he mean, by "Someone's built a candy brain and filled it in"?

@@platinumare I really don't know, but I can assume that he means someone has put a lot of sweet ideas into her mind, to "convince her, make her fall in love"... but referring to that as a more "poetically derogatory" way, I would think... I don't know xd

@@platinumare candy castle, meaning illusions. Delia Morris

I'm going back to you and show you the first time I have been with someone who has probably had the tendency to get in touch with the guy who this was in the lobby to be in my office for sure

@@platinumare It emphasizes her youth, vulnerability and immaturity.

Thx for the advice, im 24 now

Time really does go by like a flash. I'm 50 and seems like the years fly by even faster the older we get! I miss the days of my youth 😞. Life was so much better then.