Kiss Me Deadly (album)  Kiss Me Deadly is the third and final studio album by the English Punk Rock and New Wave band Gen X, produced by Keith Forsey it was issued in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1981. "Kiss Me Deadly" failed on release to enter the UK Albums Chart, and Gen X broke up after the record's commercial failure. "Kiss Me Deadly" displayed a developing complexity in the songwriting partnership of lead singer Billy Idol and bassist Tony James, as they transitioned from their origins as musicians in the London punk rock scene of the late 1970s into a more sophisticatedly nuanced sound, and mature lyrical and thematic content, at the initiation of the British New Wave movement in 1980. The album's theme is the troubled complexities of life in the metropolitan Western World at the end of the 20th century, with reflections on city life, social isolation, narcotic abuse and drug dependency, and the ambition and exhilaration of youth. The lyrics for "Dancing with Myself" were inspired by a 1979 visit to a Tokyo nightclub while the predecessor band Generation X were on tour in Japan, when Idol and James encountered the strange sight of young Japanese nightclubbers disco dancing with their own reflections in a mirror-walled venue rather than with one another. The song's lyrics reflect social isolation in a crowd and the youthful search for companionship with the opposite sex. "Happy People" was inspired by a newspaper article about escalating use of the anti-depressant prescription drug Valium in contemporary British society. Idol's lyrics for "Untouchables" reflected on his daydreaming at school about pop music stardom, being fascinated by its distant glamour; of the driving impulse to avoid the 9-to-5 employment existence of adulthood that lay beyond school years, and reflecting his fears of the potential for failure of his attempt at a professional career in pop music with a return to that world. "Poison" was about Idol's increasing dalliance with heroin, and the psychological dangers that he sensed were present in the lifestyle that he had embarked upon in pursuance of pop music stardom. "Heavens Inside" was written about Steve New, whom Idol and James had wanted to be Gen X's guitarist until they abandoned the idea due to New's narcotic addiction that rendered him a professional liability. "Kiss Me Deadly" was recorded at AIR Studios in London in 1980, produced by Keith Forsey and engineered by Nigel Walker. Several of its songs were salvaged from Generation X's 1979 recording sessions at Olympic Studios for that band's abortive third album, during which they had acrimoniously broken up (the original recording sessions were retrospectively released in 1998 under the title "Sweet Revenge)".