"GATGFI MY FALL"

Garbo speaks! Jolson sings! Billy Idol smiles! Events all. For possibly the first time since Don Rickles offered to turn Idol upside-down and rent him out as a dust ,mop, the snarlin' Aryan has bared his teeth in something other than his trademark sneer. The trick, according to the vidclip's producer, Jacqui Byford, is simply that Idol and
ever makes Billy happy.

Tliis slight softening of Idol's image occurs in a typically abstract, 35mm-film clip that finds our hero dazed in a room at the gateway to Hell. Demons contort his face. Brimstone winds engulf him. He gets an overpowering urge to take a shower.

"Catch My Fall" director

David

Mallet are "extremely good friends." That fact didn't produce any grins in

"We used a giant, giant wind machine," relates producer Byford. "It was a bit more powerful than we Scary. Scary stuff. expected; we thought it'd blow us all Mallet, an "old-timer" whose down, and the studio"-Unit 5, in countless videos include the classic London-"wds a complete mess "Ashes to Ashes" (with co-director afterward." Fortunately, the video David Bowie), is as stylish as ever isnft a mess at all.
here, his excesses almost forgiveable.

haunted by vaguely familiar layers of cinema past. Carolyn Cowan's makeup work infuses an eerie charm. And come time for a bit of action, an ill wind sweeps dramatically.

"White Wedding", but hey, what- The room glows with a hazy patina,

-Frqnk

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Cqtch My Foll
(Words and music: Billy ldol) I have the time So I will sing, yeah I'm just a boy But I will win, yeah Lost song of lovers Fellow travelers, yeah Leave me sad and hollow With just these words
CHORUS

lf I should stumble " Catch my fall, yeah lf I should stumble Catch my fall Catch my fall lf I should stumble Catch my fall lf I should stumble
I've travelled and unwound My own'truth, yeah I've laid my head On the Rock of Youth, yeah [ve- trusted and then broken My own word Just to keep, ms

Catch my fall lf I should stumble Catch my fall Catch my fall It could happen to you So, think for yourself lf I should stumble Catch my'fall, yeah ll I should stumble Catch my fall, yeah lf I should stumble

Won't you
Catch my fall lf I should stumble Catch my fall lf I should stumble Oatch my fall lf I should stumble Catch my fall lf I should stumble

ln this mad, mad world

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It could happen to you So think for.yourself

CHORUS

lf I should stumble

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