Devil's Playground by Billy Idol

Devil's Playground, Billy Idol's sixth studio album, came out on Sanctuary Records on 22 March 2005, his first album since 1993's Cyberpunk and a comeback after he'd spent the back half of the '90s living his life well away from the spotlight. His only new recording in the meantime had been a cover of "Don't You (Forget About Me)" on his 2001 Greatest Hits.

Keith Forsey produced it, and the tags on it read like a résumé: punk rock, hard rock and new wave, the three strands Idol had been braiding together since he fronted Generation X on the London punk scene and then became a fixture of early MTV. After more than a decade away, the only real question was whether the sneer still worked, and a record called Devil's Playground was his cheerfully unrepentant answer.

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