Billy Squier

While it'd be surreal today to see a recording artist leading staffers through an on-air holiday singalong, at the time, it was a perfectly MTV thing to do.

Everyone loves an overnight success story, but fame and fortune far more often follow years of hard work.

He'd spent the early '80s on a hot streak, releasing two multi-platinum Top 5 albums over a two-year span.

After two late-'70s albums with Piper, he knew he needed something more.

Billy Squier is about to collect a fresh round of mailbox money thanks to Eminem.

Billy Squier describes the fight with his label surrounding 1993's 'Tell the Truth.'

Billy Squier's early-'80s heyday may have come and gone -- unceremoniously halted, he says, by an instantly dated video for 'Rock Me Tonite' in 1984 -- but that doesn't mean he's not getting paid. In fact, Squier has become one of the most sampled artists in hip-hop, thanks to a series of thunderous…

Classic rock is about heavy hooks, power chords and tight harmonies. But it’s also about letting loose and enjoying the good times. And there’s no better time for that than Friday evening, when we pick up our paycheck, punch out of work and enjoy a couple days of much…

If you happen to hear what sounds like Billy Squier's 'The Stroke' blasting out of your local Top 40 radio station over the next few weeks, your ears aren't deceiving you.

In the new (and definitely NSFW) trailer for the upcoming comedy 'We're The Millers,' we get an eyeful of Jennifer Aniston and an earful of Billy Squier's 'The Stroke,' as re-interpreted by rapper Mickey Avalon.