BILLY SQUIER
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”, from his 1981 Triple Platinum breakout album release Don’t Say No. Other hits include “In the Dark”, “Rock Me Tonite”, “The Big Beat”, “Lonely Is the Night”, “Everybody Wants You”, and “Emotions in Motion”. (More from Wikipedia)
For the past 25 years, Ringo Starr has spent most of his time with Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band, which has featured a rotating line-up of some of the finest rock musicians on earth, Levon Helm, Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Billy Squier, and Edgar Winter among them. They are dropping by the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the middle of next month.
(September 2014)
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Songs about masturbation were fairly common in the 1980’s, and several became hits. (Prince’s “Darling Nikki” was not even released as a single). Examples include “The Stroke” by Billy Squier, “I Touch Myself” by DiVinyls, and “Turning Japanese” by the Vapors – the latter song is a reference to what some people say a face can look like at the moment of climax.
(June 2016)
