Billy Squier

   
Artist: Billy Squier

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Emotions in Motion

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 Creatures Of Habit

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Don't Say No

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 10

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Many gunpoint to Billy Squier as early-'80s stone personified -- an epoch when he and many of his peers toughened hard rock and roll with drink down melodicism -- and by adding merely the right sum of posing and posturing for the new constructed MTV set, he scored a string of domain john Rock anthems and office ballads. But Squier did non enjoy overnight success as it took many old age and several failed bands earlier he hit paydirt as a solo creative person. Born on May 12, 1950, in Wellesley Hills, MA, Squier began playing forte-piano and guitar at an early years, merely didn't become grave with euphony until discovering Eric Clapton (via the celebrated British guitarist's stints with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Cream) in the late '60s and deciding to pursue music full-time. After playing in various local bands in the Boston area, Squier exhausted the early '70s relocating back up and off between Boston and New York City, during which clock time he contributed to a troupe that combined music with poetry (called Magic Terry & the Universe), accompanied the Berklee College of Music, and played in a geminate of stone groups (N.Y.C.'s Kicks, which included future New York Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan, and Boston's the Sidewinders).


Simply it wasn't until Squier's following band, Piper, that the singer/guitarist fronted a group that inked a transcription contract, issuing a pair of underappreciated albums for A&M (1976's self-titled debut and 1977's Can't Wait), earlier splitting up. Undeterred, Squier soldiered on as a solo represent, issue his solo debut, Narrative of the Tape, in 1980, which spawned a chair rock music radio hit with "You Should Be High Love," setting the stage dead for his large commercial breakthrough. Looking to the tumid rock music of early Led Zeppelin for inspiration, Squier's sophomore sacking, Don't Say No, became a monster strike on the military posture of the Zep carbon copy "The Stroke," as substantially as such other careen radio staples as "In the Dark," "My Kinda Lover," and "Lonesome Is the Night," all of which enjoyed clayey rotation on the freshly founded MTV, serving Squier spread out his hearing fifty-fifty farther.


Squier's run into parade continued with 1982's Emotions in Motion, some other big freeing that spawned an additional monster radio/MTV strike with "Everybody Wants You," as Squier supported the album with a turn of U.S. arenas (with an gumptious Def Leppard opening). But on his side by side release, the 1984 Jim Steinman-produced Signs of Life, Squier pip a rent in his life history. Although the album was another tidy U.S. pip, the video for the album's exclusive, "Careen Me Tonite," estranged some of Squier's hardcore sway next, as the vocalist was filmed flamboyantly prancing around his flat in clock time to the music (and in a mo of big enjoy, ripping off his shirt) -- resulting in the clip often beingness considered one of the most unknowingly uproarious videos of all time.


Squier continued to offspring albums passim the '80s (including such titles as 1986's Sufficiency Is Enough and 1989's Hear & Now), merely it wasn't enough to keep his audience from moving on to such younger, likewise styled acts of the Apostles as Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe, as the hits eventually dried up. Squier continued to release albums in the '90s (1991's Creatures of Habit, 1993's Tell the Truth, and 1998's Happy Blue), merely the hard tilt audience, world Health Organization became more interested in such unpretentious rockers as Nirvana, had deemed the absolute majority of '80s rockers passé.





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