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Billy Squier Discography (1980 1998)[

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Billy Squier Discography
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Artist...............: Billy Squier
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 1980-1998
Quality..............: 192-320kbps
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Covers...............: Front, Back
Information..........: Seperate nfo/sfv for each album
Tracklisting.........: See full file list

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Albumlisting
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1980 - The Tale of the Tape (320kbps)
1981 - Don't Say No (320kbps)
1982 - Emotions in Motion (320kbps)
1984 - Signs Of Life (192kbps)
1986 - Enough is Enough (VBR, 255kbps)
1989 - Hear & Now (320kbps)
1991 - Creatures of habit (192kbps)
1993 - Tell The Truth (VBR, 212kbps)
1995 - 16 Strokes The Best of Billy Squier (192kbps)
1998 - Happy Blue (192kbps)

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William Haislip "Billy" Squier (born on May 12, 1950 in Wellesley,
Massachusetts) is an American rock musician. 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. 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 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. The song "You Should Be
High Love" received a fair amount of play on album rock stations, but no
single cracked the pop charts. Years later, the song "The Big Beat" was
sampled in rap songs.

Squier asked Brian May of Queen to produce his album Don't Say No. May
declined due to scheduling conflicts, but he recommended instead Reinhold
Mack who had produced one of Queen's most successful albums ever, 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 topping the singles chart in
Australia. "In The Dark" and "My Kinda Lover" were successful follow-up
singles. Squier was a popular act on Album Rock radio, with every track on
the album receiving airplay.] Don't Say No reached the Top 5 and lasted well
over two years on Billboard's album chart, selling nearly 4 million copies in the
US. What distinguishes the album is the longevity of the tracks, many of
which still receive recognition on "classic rock" radio stations.

In 1983, Squier did his first headlining arena U.S. tour with Def Leppard as
opening act. On the VH1 show Ultimate Albums (Def Leppard episode), Squier
revealed that his career as a chart-topping rocker came to a rapid and
sudden end with the release of the "Rock Me Tonight" video, derided by his
fans who saw him as a guitar hero.

Nevertheless, Squier continued to record music throughout the 1980s and
1990s. He released Hear & Now in 1989, which featured the singles "Don't
Say You Love Me" (which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock
chart) and "Tied Up".

In 1991, Billy Squier released Creatures of Habit, which yielded only one
single, "She Goes Down," which also peaked at #4 on the Mainstream Rock
chart. The title of the track refers to oral sex, and the music video is a very
rare item, mainly because it features nude females and sexual metaphors
throughout.

Squier released his final album with Capitol Records in 1993, Tell the Truth,
which featured different sets of musicians performing the various tracks.
Squier called it his finest album since Don't Say No, yet Capitol did little to
promote the album, and 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. He embarked on a
mini-tour to showcase songs from the album, which included a stripped-down
acoustic version of his classic rock mega-hit, "The Stroke."

In March of 2001, a tour was launched, that featured Styx, Bad Company,
and Billy Squier, which proved to be quite successful.

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