Eyes Without a Face by Billy Idol

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 12

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:00)

• Emaj7
  Imaj7

Part 2 (0:06)

• Emaj7 – C♯m – G♯m – B – Emaj7 – C♯m – G♯m
  Imaj7 – vi – iii – V – Imaj7 – vi – iii

Part 3 (0:31)

• B – Emaj7 – C♯m – G♯m (×2)
  V – Imaj7 – vi – iii

Part 4 (0:53)

• B
  V
• A – Badd11 (×3)
  IV – Vadd11
• F♯m7
  ii7

Part 5 (1:16)

• Emaj7/G♯ – Emaj7 – C♯m – G♯m – B – Emaj7 – C♯m – G♯m
  Imaj⁶₅ – Imaj7 – vi – iii – V – Imaj7 – vi – iii

Part 6 (1:38)

• B – Emaj7 – C♯m – G♯m – B – A – Badd11 – A
  V – Imaj7 – vi – iii – V – IV – Vadd11 – IV

Part 7 (2:00)

• Badd11 – A – Badd11 – F♯m7 – Emaj7/G♯ – Emaj7 – E – D
  Vadd11 – IV – Vadd11 – ii7 – Imaj⁶₅ – Imaj7 – I – bVII

Part 8 (2:54)

• E – D (×4)
  I – bVII

Part 9 (3:16)

• E – D (×3)
  I – bVII
• Emaj7 – C♯m
  Imaj7 – vi

Part 10 (3:38)

• G♯m – B – Emaj7 – C♯m
  iii – V – Imaj7 – vi
• G♯m – B (×2)
  iii – V

Part 11 (4:01)

• A – Badd11 (×3)
  IV – Vadd11
• F♯m7 – Emaj7/G♯
  ii7 – Imaj⁶₅

Part 12 (4:23)

• F♯m7 – Emaj7/G♯ – Emaj7
  ii7 – Imaj⁶₅ – Imaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Rebel Yell Expanded Edition), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Rebel Yell Expanded Edition), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.