admittedly I am very cynical, but if you've ever read the Q magazine "rudest man in rock" interview with Billy you'll see that he seemed to be operating at peak megalomania during that era too. he'd undoubtedly ascribe it now to "just playing a character" and something that is too far over our heads for our inferior intellects to grasp, but we know that's a load of bs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hatephoria/...t_man_in_rock/
funnily enough the article used to be available on the Q site and a couple other sites but appears to have been scrubbed from the net aside from this old reddit post