I was always a big Generation X fan.
“We wrote the Rebel Yell songs ‘Flesh for Fantasy,’ ‘Eyes Without a Face,’ and some others during rehearsals,” Stevens recalls. “But ‘Rebel Yell’ didn’t come about till we went to Electric Lady Studios to start recording. We had the music first. We ran tape as we were demoing it, and, little by little, we started to think that we had something.”
Source: Steve Stevens: How I Wrote “Rebel Yell” | GuitarPlayer