Don't Stop (EP)

For the 5 Seconds of Summer EP, see Don't Stop (5 Seconds of Summer EP).

Don't Stop
EP by
Billy Idol
ReleasedOctober 1981
RecordedSeptember 1980, July 1981
Studio
  • AIR (London)
  • Westlake (Los Angeles)
  • Musicland West (Los Angeles)
GenreDance-rock[1]
Length16:44
LabelChrysalis
F2 21729 / DIDX 5224
ProducerKeith Forsey
Billy Idol chronology
Don't Stop
(1981) 		Billy Idol
(1982)
Singles from Don't Stop
  1. "Dancing with Myself"
    Released: 1981
  2. "Mony Mony"
    Released: 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Robert ChristgauB[3]

Don't Stop is the first EP by English rock singer Billy Idol, released in 1981 by Chrysalis Records.

The EP contains a version of Tommy James and the Shondells' UK No. 1 hit "Mony Mony", a live version of which would later become a hit for Idol in 1987. It also contains the song "Dancing with Myself", which had previously been a commercially unsuccessful single release for Idol's former band Gen X in the UK in 1980. "Dancing With Myself" (from that band's LP Kiss Me Deadly) was not re-recorded for the Don't Stop EP release but was remixed from Gen X's 6:05 minute long extended version of the song and edited down into 4:50 minutes, from which a drum solo and chorus section were removed. "Untouchables" is another Gen X song taken from the 1980 album Kiss Me Deadly, which was re-recorded for Don't Stop.

  1. ^ Taylor, Jonathan (2 September 1982). "Billy Idol – Billy Idol". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Don't Stop". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  3. ^ "CG: billy idol". Robert Christgau. 10 August 1993. Retrieved 5 January 2012.