• R.I.P. Pete Shelley, former frontman of the Buzzcocks and “Homosapien” hitmaker, age 63
• R.I.P. Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci, director of 1987’s “The Last Emperor” & other epic films
• R.I.P. Nicolas Roeg, director of “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” “Performance” & other great films
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners with Blue Underground to present the best cult, horror & exploitation films
• Lech Kowalski’s “D.O.A.: A Right of Passage” features Sex Pistols U.S. tour footage & more
• Bob Gruen’s behind-the-scenes look at his Ike & Tina Turner music doc “On the Road: 1971-72″
• “The Gumby Show”: America’s Favorite Clayboy is back again on Night Flight!
• “Arise! The SubGenius Movie”: The return of Night Flight’s “Love That “Bob”” episodes!
• Outsider artist & one-man showcase filmmaker Laz Rojas comes to Night Flight Plus!

All posts tagged "Billy Idol"

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  Night Flight on IFC: Episode 1!

  “Night Flight” was the most radically fun, nostalgically cranium-bursting cable TV program of all time, originally airing in the ’80s (and syndicated shows aired during the ’90s) during the wee hours on Fridays and Saturdays on the...

  • Posted March 17, 2018
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  “Modern-Day Mata Hari”: Three videos from the reigning queen of gloom rock, Siouxsie Sioux

  In this special 35-minute edition of Night Flight’s “Flash Tracks,” which originally aired on June 20, 1987, we highlighted three videos by the irrepressible Siouxsie Sioux, who Night Flight’s Pat Prescott calls “the reigning queen of gloom...

  • Posted January 22, 2018
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  Rock’s Rude Boy: Billy Idol was the leading spokesman for the post-punk generation

  In Night Flight’s Billy Idol Video Profile — which originally aired on January 19, 1985 — Idol opens up about moving to New York City four years earlier, a move called “treason” by his fellow British countrymen,...

  • Posted June 15, 2017
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  Raw Energy: “Punk: The Early Years” documentary chronicles the London punk scene circa ’77

  The hour-long documentary film Punk: The Early Years – The Origins of the Punk Rock Phenomenon — originally titled Raw Energy and rarely seen until 1997, when its was apparently first distributed on DVD — chronicles the...

  • Posted September 28, 2016
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  Fashion and “Flesh For Fantasy”: Night Flight’s “Visions of Video Music and Fashion, Pt. 1″

  “Ever since Elvis Presley sang about his ‘blue suede shoes’, rock music and fashion have been intrinsically linked,” says an offscreen announcer who seems to have a genuine gift for stating the obvious but he nevertheless sets...

  • Posted April 19, 2016
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