Billy Idol is feeling nostalgic about his wild New York Metropolis nights — and so is Drew Barrymore.
The punk legend appeared on The Drew Barrymore Present this week, the place he and the actress mirrored on their shared experiences within the Nineteen Eighties membership scene. Although Barrymore was nonetheless a toddler on the time, she grew up frequenting legendary venues like Studio 54 and Limelight — typically within the firm of musicians like Idol.
“Please, management room, inform me you will have the image of me and Billy at Limelight, the membership,” Barrymore stated, as a black-and-white picture of the 2 from 1986 appeared onscreen. “Sure! I imply, Billy, that’s the place I see us once I consider you in my thoughts is again within the previous membership days. What the hell do you bear in mind from these days?”
“Not very a lot,” Idol replied with amusing, prompting Barrymore to joke, “Me neither — I hoped you would colour stuff in for me.”
Even when the reminiscences are hazy, Idol stated he remembers the liberty of the period vividly. “It was a very unbelievable time. I actually loved these ‘80s years. New York was type of bankrupt so something kinda went. It was like post-apocalyptic… you felt like the top of the world had type of occurred.”
Barrymore smiled as she recalled how a lot the rocker meant to her rising up. “The one factor I knew was that I beloved you, I bought to hang around with you, we had been clearly playful and foolish.”
The 2 reunited years later when Idol made a memorable cameo in 1998’s The Marriage ceremony Singer, which Barrymore starred in alongside Adam Sandler. “I used to be so excited to be collectively once more,” she stated. “It felt like, ‘Oh! Simply yesterday we had been like, out within the golf equipment collectively!’”
As their dialog got here to a detailed, Barrymore turned visibly emotional. “I’m actually in a really nostalgic type of avalanche in my thoughts,” she stated. “It simply doesn’t really feel like all time has passed by. I really feel like we’re again within the membership, we’re at The Marriage ceremony Singer, we’re doing our factor. You don’t look any completely different. You look good!”
She added, “God, I miss dancing a lot. I miss the golf equipment! And people locations performed, as we stated, each kind of music, however you actually pushed by means of and… modified the world. All of us thanks for that.” Idol added, “It was an excellent enjoyable time.”
