In 1989, Billy Idol threw an insane party in Bangkok, Thailand.
Think “Hangover Trilogy” but times one hundred. He rented the entire top floor of a hotel and had a ton of men and women over, booze, drugs, cocaine, weed, poppers, champagne, beer, prostitutes, rent boys, ladyboys, his entire wasted entourage and anyone across the street that looked half-way cute enough to give it a go…
The party did not stop. There were lines of cocaine day and night, drug dealers coming in and out, enough bottles of liquor and cans of stale beer to recreate the Great Wall of China with. The bar got trashed, walls got broken, doors carried out of their doorframes and smashes to pieces… loud music kept going on at any hours of the night, there was no sleep, just endless orgies, pills popped like smarties and property damage to the tune of 250,000 dollars. The whole ordeal lasted for three weeks. Three entire weeks of day-and-night raging.
In the end, the police failed to stop Billy Idol so the Thai army went in and shot the king of pop-rock debauchery with tranquillizer darts… he was carried out on a stretcher and the party finally came to an end. Frankly, it is a miracle that Billy Idol is alive today at 69, and that no one died during his three-week imitation of Emperor Nero on coke and poppers.
