The Day Billy Squier Died
I am minding my own business today at work playing Billy Squier's Absolute Hits (Rock Me Tonite) on the 20 year old Nakamichi Compact1 hi-fi in my office when in walks one of my team. She yells from the door if I have seen the video for this song. I don't think I have ever seen a Squier vid. We didn't have much TV reception where I grew up and MTV was not one of the channels you could get from an attennea. She insists that I watch the video, it is a spectale, I had no idea. Here is the link to the youtube. Check out the comments, they are pretty funny. I wonder how record sales were after this was released? holla at your boy
posted by spappyjones @ 2:42 PM
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Found this after some research this morning:
"Rock Me Tonite" video and fall
Two years passed between Emotions In Motion and Squier's next album Signs Of Life. It was his third consecutive Platinum album. The album's first single release, "Rock Me Tonite" was Billy's biggest pop hit. It reached #15 on Billboard's Hot 100 - as well as #1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart - in late 1984. However, the video for the track, which largely consisted on Billy dancing around a bedroom in a pink tank top, frequently appears on "worst music video ever" lists.
Billy Squier's career took a major downturn afterward. His next two albums, released in 1986 and 1989, sold in the neighborhood of 300,000 copies each. Billy also began playing smaller venues like music theatres. The 1990s would find Squier largely off the radar and recording and performing considerably less.
Squier is also known for his collaborations with Freddie Mercury on Squier's 1986 release Enough Is Enough ("Love Is The Hero", "Lady With A Tenor Sax"). Mercury also sang background vocals on Squier's hit single "Emotions in Motion".
In 1983, Squier did his first headlining arena U.S. tour with Def Leppard as opening act and Def Leppard upstaged him. Squier confirmed this on the VH1 show Ultimate Albums on the episode which spotlighted the making of Def Leppard's Pyromania album.
On that same show, Squier revealed that his career as a chart-topping rocker came to a stunningly rapid and sudden end with the release of the music video for "Rock Me Tonite", derided by his fans who saw him as a guitar hero.[citation needed] The video showed Squier in a bedroom with soft, pastel fabrics and shimmering satin sheets, and featured Squier ripping off his clothing, reminiscent of Jennifer Beals' performance in the film Flashdance.[citation needed]
hey this blog entry is like 5 months old, lets get current pal ... we want to be entertained
Its 12years old now lol
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