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News in from Activision regarding Billy and Guitar Hero 5: October DLC sales data states that for the month of October, Billy had the #2 highest selling song for GH5 downloads – “The Stroke”. He also had the #11 song with “Everybody Wants You”. The Billy Squier pack was the #3 pack. A great success overall!!

Christmas comes a bit early for us Squier fans! 2009 All Night Long Tour Merchandise is now available through our on site catalog. …and yes that does include the USB devices!! (NOTE: The catalog info refers to past versions of the site.)

SPAM ALERT Dear fans, It’s come to our attention that a few of you have received spam emails with a return address of “admin@billysquier.com”. If you get one of these, don’t open it, and you may want to report it to your email provider. You will NEVER receive any unsolicited email from an “admin” atContinue reading

While we had been telling fans of a hopeful third leg of the tour, word from Billy is that “plans to extend the tour for another leg down the eastern seaboard and into the deep south have been shelved for the time being. Sorry we couldn’t make it.” As always, if you’d like to keepContinue reading

After a short break, the All Night Long tour is resuming. A NYC date has been announced at the end of this leg. Fan Chris Sasser is so looking forward to it that he designed his own fan promo poster for it.

Billy’s got a message for fans who’ve been commenting on “new” songs being played on tour: “…these are, in fact, not new songs, but select gems from my catalog that I wanted to play so that more people could be exposed to them…and get a general road-map of my musical journey.” With the exception ofContinue reading

There’s a new article on Billy, the tour and mostly his guitars in the August issue of Premier Guitar. You can read it in our ABOUT/Select Interviews section. But Billy warns “very guitar specific (as opposed to fan-oriented)” Ever wonder what life’s like on the road? There’s also a fanboy-heavy “09 Tour Journal” added toContinue reading

An interesting charity event taking place in conjunction with Billy’s July 24th show: rock CAN rollR,is an all volunteer, non-profit hunger relief organization based on Long Island in New York. The Capital One Bank Theatre at Westbury has teamed up with rCr to ‘BEAT HUNGER’. rock CAN roll volunteers are on site at the venue,Continue reading

Be sure to check out tour reviews in the ABOUT/Select Reviews section. We’ll be posting new ones as they come in.

It has been confirmed that Jay Z’s “99 Problems” (featuring Billy’s “The Big Beat”) is being used as the main title in Columbia pictures THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3. It’s also being used in the trailer campaign.The movie opens June 12.