After packing in the English degree he was working towards at Sussex university, in 1976 Billy joined up with The Bromley Contingent, a group of Sex Pistols fans who went on to have an impact of their own after it formed Siouxsie and the Banshees and Generation X.īilly became the lead singer of Generation X and made no attempt to hide the fact that they were going to do things a bit differently from other punk acts.
