INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH WEDDING
Thursday 17th July 2003
SONGLINES CARR'S GUIDE TO QUIRKY COVERS - WHITE WEDDING as recorded by Murderdolls (Roadrunner)
This industrial rock version of Billy Idol's '80s block-buster comes from Joey Jordison, aka 1, the masked drummer who propelled nu-metal shockers, Slipknot.
"The 'Knots' noise terrorism agenda would never have allowed such public displays of weakness," he says. "The maggots would never have sanctioned it."
Jordison's shot at a new kind of stardom comes from the imagination of Billy Idol, the English wannabe punk who fronted the sneered at Generation X before larging it in America as a solo artist and peroxide rock superstar.
Born Willian Broad, Idol was a shy kid. He carved out a new identity during the halcyon days of punk. Eventually he quit his band and took off the States where New York clubbers named a drug cocktail after him.
With the man who once managed KISS in tow, Idol set his sights on a mass audience. He spent a massive (for then) 35 grand on a video for his song White Wedding and dominated MTV, then 'the big new thing'.
That was it. In '83 Billy Idol became an instant celebrity.
White Wedding has also been covered by Jive Bunny.
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