{"id":32589,"date":"2019-01-15T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=32589"},"modified":"2019-01-15T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:17:26","slug":"billy-idol-to-headline-napervilles-ribfest-july-3rd-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=32589","title":{"rendered":"Billy Idol to Headline Naperville\u2019s Ribfest July 3rd, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Idol will headline Naperville\u2019s Ribfest in Knoch Park on Wednesday, July 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0 The first lineup announcement for 2019 has the Ribfest chairs and the club smiling. \u201cBilly Idol has always been ahead of his time. He\u2019s unique and talented\u201d, says Pete Paulsen, co-chair of 2019 Ribfest, \u201cand this is his first performance at Ribfest. We\u2019re planning for a big night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for Ribfest go on sale Friday, January 18<sup>th<\/sup> at 10am through ribfest.net.<\/p>\n<p>Current Ribfest 2019 Grand Sponsors include ABC7 Chicago, Great Lakes Coca-Cola, D &amp; J Amusements, Jewel-Osco, Miller Lite, Euclid Beverage, Nathan&#8217;s Famous Beef Franks, and Navistar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Billy Idol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Billy Idol is an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. His lip- curling sneer and fist-pumping persona vaulted him into the mainstream as one of MTV\u2019s first megastars, making him one of the most recognizable faces in pop music, while selling out arenas everywhere he played. He has sold 40 million albums while scoring numerous platinum albums worldwide, nine top forty singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including \u201cDancing With Myself, \u201cWhite Wedding,\u201d \u201cRebel Yell,\u201d \u201cMony Mony,\u201d \u201cEyes Without A Face,\u201d \u201cFlesh For Fantasy,\u201d and \u201cCradle Of Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Billy was responsible for some of punk rock\u2019s most memorable, literate, and evocative moments and created a pioneering new sound by bringing the spirit of \u201977 to the dance floor, going on to fashion an immediately identifiable musical blueprint that integrates club-land throb, rockabilly desperation, and rock\u2019n\u2019roll decadence.<\/p>\n<p>Idol returned to the spotlight in the fall of 2014 with two high profile releases that marked the latest chapter in the long and remarkable story of a musician, an inventor, a survivor, a father, a son, a man who returned from the brink, and a rebel whose yells made the mainstream sit up and pay attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Naperville\u2019s Ribfest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mission-driven and volunteer run, Exchange Club of Naperville\u2019s Ribfest is a premier Midwestern 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July concert series and celebration. In cooperation with its partners, the City of Naperville and the Naperville Park District, Ribfest, in its 32nd year, now draws more than 150,000 visitors annually. Net proceeds from Ribfest directly support 50+ agencies that work tirelessly to eliminate child abuse and domestic violence in all forms. To date, Exchange has donated over $17.5 million to these agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Idol will headline Naperville\u2019s Ribfest in Knoch Park on Wednesday, July 3rd.\u00a0\u00a0 The first lineup announcement for 2019 has the Ribfest chairs and the club smiling. \u201cBilly Idol has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-breaking-news","category-this-just-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}