Top Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Platoon were in theaters. Billy Idol’s fourth studio album, Whiplash Smile, hit #6 on the charts in the wake of his groundbreaking ’83 Rebel Yell. It was the heart of the eighties and our June, 1986 cover had Billy on newsstands everywhere.
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…and check out Billy’s “To Be a Lover” video below, released the same year as his SPIN cover.
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