Billy Idol had a pretty clear impetus for making his first new full-length album in 11 years with this year’s “Dream Into It.”

“We hadn’t done one since ‘Kings & Queens of the Underground’ (in 2014),” Idol notes via Zoom from his home in Los Angeles. He did, however, release a pair of four-song EPs — “The Roadside” in 2021 and “The Cage” in 2022. “But when I was doing press for the EPs, I realized I have to do the same amount of press for those as an album,” Idol explains, “so I thought … let’s make an album!”

The result is an album different than anything Idol has done on its eight predecessors — albeit not musically. “It’s a very band-sounding album, which is what we’ve always gone for with my music,” notes Idol, 69. But the tone of “Dream Into It,” which came out April 25 and made a T

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