Billy Squier

A defining voice and guitarist of early 80s rock radio, this artist achieved massive multi-platinum success. Known for powerful hard rock anthems, catchy hooks, influential drum beats often sampled in hip hop, and energetic performances, his music became a staple of the AOR format.

Active since the late sixties, his solo career exploded in the early eighties with landmark albums. By the mid-eighties, around nineteen eighty-four specifically, his sound successfully incorporated contemporary synth-pop and polished pop rock production into his established hard rock foundation, yielding further major chart hits and defining the era's arena rock sound.