History Music / BillySquier

Ironically enough, Squier's biggest hit ended up harming his career quite badly. "Rock Me Tonite" was accompanied by a music video directed by [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Kenny Ortega]], which infamously featured Squier dancing about in a pink tank-top. As one might expect, it undermined the tough guy image he'd worked hard to cultivate, and alienated a lot of his fans. His career stalled, and although he remained moderately successful throughout the eighties, he never quite recovered the fame he'd experienced at the start of the decade.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier The Other Wiki]].

William Haislip Squier (born May 12, 1950) is an American former rock singer who enjoyed significant success at the start of TheEighties before derailing his career with a music video that qualifies as one of the most notorious bad decisions of all time.

William Haislip Squier (born May 12, 1950) is an American rock singer who enjoyed significant success at the start of TheEighties before derailing his career with a music video that qualifies as one of the most notorious bad decisions of all time.

* NotableMusicVideos: "[[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing Rock Me Tonite]]", for better or worse.

Billy Squier is an American rock singer who enjoyed significant success at the start of TheEighties before derailing his career with a music video that qualifies as one of the most notorious bad decisions of all time.

* AmericanAccents: He's originally from UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, MA, and his accent comes through at times (e.g., "In the dahk")

* NotableMusicVideos: "Rock Me Tonite", for better or worse.

-->"''Get around town, spend your time on the run\\

You give it all away, everybody wants you''"
-->--'''Billy Squier''', "''Everybody Wants You''"

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!!! "Trope me trope me!":
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: He's originally from UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, MA, and his accent comes through at times (e.g., "In the dahk")

Inspired by Music/EricClapton, Squier became the lead singer and guitarist of a rock group called Pepper in TheSeventies, whose self-titled record was once praised as the greatest debut album by an American rock and roll band. He went solo on the basis of this success, putting out well-received records that blended pop sensibilities with HardRock and scoring hit singles with songs like "The Stroke" and "Emotions In Motion". For a while, he was one of the most popular solo rockers in America.

* AmericanAccents: He's originally from UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, MA, and his accent comes through at times (e.g., "In the dahk")

* IncrediblyLamePun: "Too Daze Gone," ''Hear & Now''

Billy Squier is an American rock singer who enjoyed significant success at the start of TheEighties before derailing his career with a music video that qualifies one of the most notorious bad decisions of all time.

* IntercourseWithYou: "She Goes Down," "My Kind of Lover", etc.

Since then, he's exited and returned to the music industry and played with RingoStarr and His All-Starr Band.

Ironically enough, Squier's biggest hit ended up harming his career quite badly. "Rock Me Tonite" was accompanied by a music video directed by [[HighSchoolMusical Kenny Ortega]], which infamously featured Squier dancing about in a pink tank-top. As one might expect, it undermined the tough guy image he'd worked hard to cultivate, and alienated a lot of his fans. His career stalled, and although he remained moderately successful throughout the eighties, he never quite recovered the fame he'd experienced at the start of the decade.

!!Tropes:

* ADateWithRosiePalms: This is what everyone ''assumes'' "The Stroke" is about, but it's actually about the challenges one faces in the music business.
* MusicIsPolitics: Discussed in his first hit single, "The Stroke".

* SampledUp: His 1980 song "The Big Beat" was widely sampled by rap artists in the late eighties.

Inspired by EricClapton, Squier became the lead singer and guitarist of a rock group called Pepper in TheSeventies, whose self-titled record was once praised as the greatest debut album by an American rock and roll band. He went solo on the basis of this success, putting out well-received records that blended pop sensibilities with HardRock and scoring hit singles with songs like "The Stroke" and "Emotions In Motion". For a while, he was one of the most popular solo rockers in America.