Billy Squier
American rock musician and singer-songwriterWikipedia
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Sep 17, 2026
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Well, Kevin Warsh over there at the Fed, all I can say to you, buddy, is stoke the stroke.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Kind of makes you want to cue up Billy Squire.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
The stroke.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
That song had such a good beat.
Bow ThayerGUEST
Anyway, I was backstage and I'm back there with all these heavy hitters.
Bow ThayerGUEST
Who's the Billy Squire and Edgar Winter and who's the other, the drummer that Ringo uses sometimes.
Bow ThayerGUEST
Anyway, or Hamish, the guy from the people from Men at Work and all these big wig 80s, huge musicians and i'm kind of just i didn't know what to do i'm just god everyone's kind of sitting around eating theater food and chatting amongst themselves and it's backstage it's like and i'm with elizabeth and with another friend of mine who was we just felt really awkward because we didn't really know anybody just knew they were all famous and had seen them on mtv and stuff and all of a Elevator door to the room opens.
Bow ThayerGUEST
And there's Levon.
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
Now this story might have morphed in my head.
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
The way I remember it is that Billy Squier had called.
Cecily KnoblerHOST
[laughs]
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
And I was like-
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
And I, I think I was like-
Cecily KnoblerHOST
<< Stroke me >>
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
... "Uh, Billy who?" And he was like, "S- Billy Squier." He was so mad.
Stefanie Wilder-TaylorHOST
He got really mad.
Dave FriedmanPANELIST
But the three and four gain stage, I've never seen Frank do ever.
Dave FriedmanPANELIST
And I bet any amount of money if I ever got to see Billy Squire's amp, which Frank modified also, I guarantee I'm pretty sure it's Tracy's amp.
DanPANELIST
probably standard practice I don't think it was
Dave FriedmanPANELIST
anything Frank was not like a change a million things kind of guy I knew Frank I had work done by Frank and he was a kind of a purist for the most part except you know a couple little changes to give it more
Tim MinichiHOST
There is, like, a pop element to this.
Tim MinichiHOST
I kept hearing, like, Billy Squier in L-
Chip MidnightHOST
Yeah
Tim MinichiHOST
...
Tim MinichiHOST
in parts of this.
Chip MidnightHOST
Yeah.
Tim MinichiHOST
Especially 'cause his voice has that range, s- like, a similar range as, as, um, Billy Squier, Tom Holland, and, and the two of them.
Chip MidnightHOST
S- so when you think about, right, like, again, when I...
Rachel BolanGUEST
It was the, uh, I believe it was the Love Gun tour, the Kiss Alive II tour, and it, uh, it changed my life.
Rachel BolanGUEST
I mean, the band that opened for him, Piper, Billy Squier's first, uh, like his band-
speaker_0HOST
Oh, wow.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah
Ed CraneHOST
I think I missed this one.
Ed CraneHOST
This is [laughs] Billy Squier from 1982.
Ed CraneHOST
Had a number one hit with Everybody Wants You.
Ed CraneHOST
I think, was Billy Squier a one-hit wonder? I don't, I don't really know the name, but...
Ed CraneHOST
I was in Chicago doing radio in 1982, so that was a long time ago.
Ed CraneHOST
11:25, I'm Ed Crane in for Bob.
Jason ManningHOST
It's 8-19 at Classic Rock KQ.
Jason ManningHOST
Billy Squire, you're listening to the KQ Morning Show.
Jason ManningHOST
Coming up here in just a few, Hunter McCullough joining us from Northern News.
Jason ManningHOST
Now, page two headlines get to Today in Rock History and I Was Poisoned.
Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
And then I would bring in a special guest.
Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
And I brought in my buddy Larry Mitchell, who played guitar for Tracy Chapman and Billy Squire.
Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
And he does a solo thing as well.
Thomas ClaxtonGUEST
And he'd come out and did that.
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