Booking Billy Squier

Billy Squier Biography

Billy Squire was born in 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts. Squire grew up influenced by the music of Eric Clapton, and while growing up he learned to play the guitar.  After high school he attended Berklee College of Music, and in the early 1970’s he established his first band, Kicks, before joining the band Piper. The band fared pretty well; they opened for KISS during their tours in the late 1970’s and received positive reviews from the critics.

After leaving Piper, Squire signed his first deal as a solo artist in 1980 and released his debut, The Tale of the Tape. The album spent three months on the Billboard charts and spawned a few moderately successful singles, but it was the  album Don’t Say No that became Squire’s big breakthrough. It rose into the top twenty on the mainstream charts and spawned the singles “My Kinda Lover” and “In the Dark.” Eventually, the album reached multi-platinum status and set the stage for a highly successful decade for Billy Squire.

In the 1980’s, Billy Squire released Emotions in Motion (1982), Signs of Life (1984), Enough is Enough (1986), and Hear & Now (1989), featuring the hits “Everybody Wants You,” “Emotions in Motion,” “Learn How to Live,” “Rock Me Tonite,” “All Night Long,” “Eye on You,” and “Love is the Hero.” Squire released three more albums in the 1990’s (Creatures of Habit, Tell the Truth, and Happy Blue), although they didn’t fare quite as well as his 80’s albums.

Although Billy Squire has not released any new material in the new millennium, he continues to perform, and most recently contributed music for an album to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy.