BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA
Known For: Squier released his final album with Capitol Records in 1993, “Tell the Truth”
Instruments: Voice, Guitarist
Music Styles: Hard Rock
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 12th May 1950
Location Born: Wellesley Hills, Massachusets, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Billy Squire
An American vocalist and songwriter and rock musician.
William Haislip “Billy” Squier (born May 12, 1950) is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the song “The Stroke”, from his 1981 Triple Platinum breakout album release Don’t Say No.
Other hits include “In the Dark”, “Rock Me Tonite”, “Lonely Is the Night”, “Everybody Wants You” and “Emotions in Motion”.
Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is probably best known for the song “The Stroke” on his 1981 album release Don’t Say No.
Billy Squier originally performed with Magic Terry & The Universe, which also included Klaus Flouride, who went on to play with The Dead Kennedys.
Squier signed with Capitol Records to release his solo debut in 1980. Tale of the Tape was a minor hit, partly because Squier played a mixture of pop and rock, which earned him a large crossover audience.
Billy Squier’s third album for Capitol, Emotions In Motion, was released in 1982 and became nearly as successful as Don’t Say No.
Squier is also known for his collaborations with Freddie Mercury on Squier’s 1986 release Enough Is Enough (“Love Is The Hero”, “Lady With A Tenor Sax”).
Squier revealed that his career as a chart topping rocker came to a stunningly rapid and sudden end with the release of the music video for “Rock Me Tonite”.
Squier released his final album with Capitol Records in 1993, “Tell the Truth”
Squier walked away from the music business to pursue other endeavors.
In 1998, Squier released his last studio album to date on an independent label, a solo acoustic blues effort entitled Happy Blue.
Hits include.
“In The Dark”
“Rock Me Tonite”
“Lonely Is the Night”
“My Kinda Lover”
“Everybody Wants You”
“All Night Long”
“Emotions in Motion”
Albums include.
Tale of the Tape (1980)
Don’t Say No (1981)
Emotions in Motion (1982)
Signs of Life (1984)
Enough Is Enough (1986)
Hear & Now (1989)
Creatures of Habit (1991)
Tell the Truth (1993)
A Rock and Roll Christmas (Various Artists Compilation) (1994)
16 Strokes: The Best Of Billy Squier (1995)
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Billy Squier (1996)
Reach For The Sky: The Anthology (1996)
Happy Blue (1998)
Absolute Hits (2005)