Billy Idol Remembers ’80s Membership Days With Drew Barrymore

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 baby 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 could have the image of me and Billy at Limelight, the membership,” Barrymore mentioned, as a black-and-white photograph of the 2 from 1986 appeared onscreen. “Sure! I imply, Billy, that’s the place I see us after I consider you in my thoughts is again within the outdated membership days. What the hell do you bear in mind from these days?”

“Not very a lot,” Idol replied with fun, prompting Barrymore to joke, “Me neither — I hoped you would coloration stuff in for me.”

Even when the reminiscences are hazy, Idol mentioned he remembers the liberty of the period vividly. “It was a very unbelievable time. I actually loved these ‘80s years. New York was sort of bankrupt so something kinda went. It was like post-apocalyptic… you felt like the top of the world had kind 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 obtained 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 Wedding ceremony Singer, which Barrymore starred in alongside Adam Sandler. “I used to be so excited to be collectively once more,” she mentioned. “It felt like, ‘Oh! Simply yesterday we had been like, out within the golf equipment collectively!’”

As their dialog got here to an in depth, Barrymore grew to become visibly emotional. “I’m actually in a really nostalgic kind of avalanche in my thoughts,” she mentioned. “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 Wedding 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 mentioned, each kind of music, however you actually pushed by way of and… modified the world. All of us thanks for that.” Idol added, “It was an excellent enjoyable time.”