Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk

Tony Peak
10 min readDec 1, 2023

The 30th Anniversary of the 90’s Most Underrated Rock Album

Cyberpunk’s album cover.

The future has imploded into the present

- from the album’s Intro, track #1

When I first heard Billy Idol’s ‘Cyberpunk’, I was on a bus, heading home from high school. It was 1993, and I was a fifteen year-old obsessed with Kiss, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and Dungeons & Dragons. My musical preferences were rooted…

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Tony Peak

Science Fiction & Fantasy author, member of SFWA, HWA, & Planetary Society; represented by Ethan Ellenberg