Sex, Drugs and Billy Idol The Memoir

Here is the announcement: Idol, a natural-born storyteller who helped forge the early punk music scene on his way to multiplatinum worldwide success, will write the book himself. His bold, strikingly literary account will capture not only his remarkably colorful life, but also an extended period in music history that saw punk rock's emergence through to its lasting impact on musicians across the world.

Stacy Creamer, Vice President and Publisher of Touchstone made the agreement for North American, open market and first serial rights with Kirby Kim at WME. In addition, Dancing with Myself will be published in the UK by Simon & Schuster UK, where Colin Midson will edit. Touchstone will publish Dancing with Myself sometime in late 2011 or early 2012.

An early architect of punk rock's sound, style, and fury who went on to become an iconic and controversial superstar through the nascent era of music video and MTV, Idol is penning a memoir that mixes punk's audacious, take-no-prisoners attitude with a voice that is both unflinching, as it describes the debauchery that success allowed, and profound, in its vulnerability as it exposes the human experience beneath the headline-garnering chaos.