With hits such as “The Stroke,” “Everybody Wants You,” “Emotions in Motion” and “Rock Me Tonite,” rocker Billy Squier was one of the biggest stars of the 1980s. But with the changing of the musical guard in the early 1990s, along with disillusionment with the music industry, Squier decided to walk away from the business in 1993 after releasing his last major-label studio outing, Tell the Truth.
Since then, he’s released an acoustic blues album, Happy Blue, in 1998, made sporadic live appearances, and did two stints in Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band in the later part of the 2000s. Recently, Squier issued some new music, a single titled “Harder on a Woman,” and sat down with Goldmine for this rare interview.
GOLDMINE: Your music always had a guitar swagger to it. Do you think that the guitar as an instrument has got lost in pop music a lot of late?
