“Heavy metal to me implies a relentless, pounding, hitting-people-over-the-head music. Trend setters tend to dismiss it as basic and simple, but all the time that little trends keep coming and going, the Bob Segers, Bruce Springsteens and the Billy Squiers keep staying.”

American rock musician, singer, and songwriter

Billy Squier is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s and is known for a run of hit songs that helped define mainstream rock in that period. His best-known songs include "The Stroke," "Lonely Is the Night," "My Kinda Lover," "In the Dark," "Rock Me Tonite," "Everybody Wants You," "Emotions in Motion," "Love Is the Hero," and "Don't Say You Love Me." His best-selling album, 1981's Don't Say No, is regarded as a landmark of arena rock, linking the polish of power pop with the harder edge of rock.