Then, with the timely emergence of MTV, Squier suddenly became one of rock’s first music video stars (and later, one of its first notorious victims), and thus his music helped soundtrack the decade ...

On the wings of the big arena-rock anthems, big, chunky guitar riffs and, of course, big hair, rocker Billy Squier was a big man on the music scene in the 1980s. To be sure, the hair factor has been ...

I have a complicated relationship with the music of Billy Squier. For better or worse, I grew up listening to “classic rock” radio, so my youthful musical diet consisted of “Fly Like an Eagle” ...

It's amazing how it would seem that the world, and even Boston at large, forgets that Billy Squier – the pop rock wunderkind, he of "The Stroke," "In The Dark," "My Kinda Lover," "Everybody Wants You, ...

Billy Amick could picture the scene at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Tennessee baseball third baseman and outfielder Robin Villeneuve talked about it in January when Amick selected his walk-up song.

HORTON -- A generation other than the MTV one is getting introduced to the guitar-playing prowess of Billy Squier, who comes this week to Kansas to perform shows Friday and Saturday nights at the ...

The arena rock boom of the late 70s and early 80s came riding in on a wave of one-named bands. Journey, Foreigner, Kiss, Kansas, Styx, Heart, Speedwagon. Okay, we cheated on the last one, but you get ...

Classic rock is about heavy hooks, power chords and tight harmonies. But it’s also about letting loose and enjoying the good times. And there’s no better time for that than Friday evening, when we ...

WHAT: He ruled the ’80s airwaves with “Everybody Wants You,’’ “Rock Me Tonite,’’ and the evocative “The Stroke.’’ Before growing big hair and shimmying into skintight jeans, Squier was a clean-cut ...

DETROIT, MI - Billy Squier, a classic early-80s rocker, has something to say about Eminem's sampling of his song "The Stroke" for a new tune called "Berzerk." Squier's associate, Judy Miller, sent the ...

Take 2006, for example, with the likes of Billy Squier, Richard Marx, Edgar Winter and Sheila E winding down with the former Beatles drummer after a Starr-studded jam. "That's the best," admitted ...