# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-squier
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:17:04.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-squier"
name: "Billy Squier"
slug: "billy-squier"
description: "William Haislip Squier is an American rock musician, singer, and songwriter who had a string of hits in the early 1980s. 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\". Squier's best-selling album, 1981's Don't Say No, is considered a landmark release of arena rock, bridging the gap between power pop and hard rock."
tagline: "American rock musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Squier_1982_press_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.84958
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1205541/"
    handle:    "nm1205541"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Fz2GbraVXhcpXnoi2Oe1r"
    handle:    "3Fz2GbraVXhcpXnoi2Oe1r"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.billysquier.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/160133"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "بيلى سكوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2"
    title: "ビリー・スクワイア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Сквайер, Билли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Squier"
    title: "Billy Squier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3792dcb3-036e-45d6-8ee2-ff8d12c6c6c9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump