August, 2008 NEWSLETTER
Piper fans your prayers have been answered!
American Beat (who have also re-released Tale
of the Tape, Emotions
in Motion and Signs of Life) have just re-released the two Piper albums
(Piper and Can't Wait) as 1 cd. It's available at amazon.com That leaves
only 4 of Billy's albums out of print: Enough Is Enough, Hear & Now,
Creatures of Habit and Tell the Truth.
Send us an email ranking the order you would like to see them re-released
and we'll not only pass your ideas on to American Beat, you'll be entered
in a contest to win a special autographed package from Billy.
The book "Ye Olde Metal:1977" by Martin Popoff ($31.00US) features a chapter/interview with Billy about his time with Piper, "Can't Wait" To order, contact Martin directly at martinp@inforamp.net
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band 2006 Live
The DVD from this tour featuring Billy's first appearance with
the All Starrs was released on 7/8/08. You can order now at amazon.com.
The DVD features Billy performing Everybody Wants You, Rock
Me Tonite & Ramblin' On My Mind. There will be a DVD
of the 2008 tour released in the future.
2001 Tour Shirts
We've found a stash of tour T-shirts from Billy's 8101 tour.
We're currently doing an inventory and will be putting them up for sale
in the next month or so.
Where you might hear Billy
Billy's publisher has told us Everybody Wants You is
in tv promos for the USA Network show "Burn Notice", The
Stroke will be in Cartoon Network's "Lucy Daughter
of the Devil" AND a new Activision Harley Davidson game , 99 Problems
(Jay Z's song which samples Billy's The Big Beat )
will be in HBO's Entourage and Lonely is The Night is
in the Activision game Guitar Hero Encore-Rocks The 80s
VH1 has named The Stroke one of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. They'll be an online voting component to the rankings, so stay tuned to billysquier.com to find out where and when to vote. As soon as VH1 gives us the link to vote, it will go up on the site. After the rankings are determined, there will be a countdown show featuring an interview with Billy.
As always-
any Billy-related questions/comments/inquiries should go to songsoftheknight@earthlink.net [which
can also be found in the site's "contact us" section–Mike]
Billy does NOT use MySpace. If you see a Billy Squier page there, it is in no way connected with Billy. www.billysquier.com is the one and only source for Billy.