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File Name:[Request] Billy Squier - Full-Length Discography (1980-1998)
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Description:Rock from USA, full-length discography of nine albums released between 1980 and 1998.





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" on his 1981 album release Don't Say No. Other hits include "In the Dark", "Rock Me Tonite", "Lonely Is the Night", "My Kinda Lover", "Everybody Wants You", "All Night Long" and "Emotions in Motion".

Squier was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a 1968 graduate of Wellesley High School. While growing up, he began playing piano and guitar, but did not become serious with music until discovering Eric Clapton and The Bluesbreakers. When Squier was nine, he took piano lessons for two years and his grandfather bribed him to continue for a third. After he stopped taking piano lessons, he became interested in guitar and bought one from a neighbor for $95. Squier never took guitar lessons. He attended Berklee College of Music in 1971.

Billy Squier's first public performance was at a Boston nightclub in Kenmore Square called the Psychedelic Supermarket in 1968 which is where he saw Eric Clapton and the band Cream perform. Squier originally performed with the band Magic Terry & The Universe. In the early 1970s, he joined The Sidewinders, and played with Bryan Chase (drummer), Leigh Foxx (bassist), and Andy Paley (singer). Squier left the group to form the band Piper, which released two albums in the mid '70s, Piper and Can't Wait, but left soon after. Upon reviewing the debut Piper, Circus Magazine touted it as the greatest debut album ever produced by an American rock band.

Piper was managed by the same management company as KISS, and opened for KISS during their 1977 tour, including the second and third nights of a three-night, sold-out run at New York's Madison Square Garden. Squier signed with Capitol Records to release his solo debut in 1980. The Tale of the Tape (TOTT) was a minor hit, partly because Squier played a mixture of pop and rock, which earned him a large crossover audience.

The song "You Should Be High Love" got massive radio play: six weeks most requested at AOR radio. Years later, the song "Big Beat" became the most-sampled songs in hip-hop history. Bruce Kulick of KISS fame played on TOTT. Squier asked Brian May of Queen to produce his second album Don't Say No. May declined due to scheduling conflicts, but he recommended instead Reinhold Mack who had produced one of Queen's albums, The Game. Squier agreed, and Mack went on to produce Don't Say No.

The album became a smash, with the lead single "The Stroke" becoming a hit all around the world, hitting the Top 20 in the US and reaching top 5 in Australia. "In The Dark" and "My Kinda Lover" were successful follow-up singles. Squier became a monster act on the new MTV cable channel as well as on Album Rock radio, with most tracks on the Don't Say No album receiving airplay. Don't Say No reached the Top 5 and lasted well over two years on Billboard's album chart, eventually selling over 4 million copies in the US alone.


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1980 The Tale Of The Tape

1981 Don't Say No

1982 Emotions In Motion

1984 Signs Of Life

1986 Enough Is Enough

1989 Hear & Now

1991 Creatures Of Habit

1993 Tell The Truth

1998 Happy Blue


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