‘Everybody Wants You’ Declares Billy Squier as He Hands You The Phone with Another Of His Patented Dissapproving Looks

For a while there around 1981, Billy Squier had the rock world by the tail. His songs were sonic slammers, produced for maximum radio OOMPH. His lyrics were clever roman a clef's mostly detailing the trials and travails of his time in the music business. And then he made video with a wee bit too much flounce, and it was all pretty much over. Still, he had some quality songs. Like this one. READ ON!  

Stroke me stroke me. Yeah, it's that guy. Dude from Massachusetts. Saw Eric Clapton in a club called the Psychedelic Supermarket and decided to be a rock star. Started a band called Kicks. Opened for Kiss. Signed by Capitol Records. Did a song called "The Big Beat" that became a go to song for the burgeoning rap sample game, sounded like this:

Then the eighties rolled around, he enlisted a producer whose main claim to fame was fashioning Queen's later records and HELLLLOOOO big time. Two albums and a handful of slamming radio friendly "arena rock" songs rolled out, most of which are playing right now on stations with "rock" or "eagle" or "the fox" in their names. Like today's song, which peaked at #32 in 1982 from an album bearing a cover done by Andy Frickin' Warhol.

And it's your K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY! 

And while you are down here, maybe looking for where you dropped your glasses, we have a bonus for you. A video from the video fun factory at K-101.7!