Talk:Billy Squier

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legal

Is that .gif in the article legal to use? --LanceManion1973

Should we write a paragraph about him being one of the biggest led zeppelin rip-offs ever? If there are no objections, i'll do it.209.115.232.65 (talk) 20:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:NPoV & WP:Verify - Al.locke (talk) 10:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Associated acts

Shouldn't KISS and Queen be listed as associated acts, according to the text of the article?

Johnskeller (talk) 05:41, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Collaboration with Tom Scholz

I had once read in a mid-1970s issue of an American music magazine — probably not Rolling Stone — that Squier and Tom Scholz had co-written and recorded a small collection of songs just prior to Squier's induction into Piper and Scholz' formation of Boston. However, my scouring of the Internet for this factoid failed. It would be quite a coup if someone could add it to the article and cite the proper source. -JohnAlbertRigali (talk) 04:11, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sampling

This article needs a section on samples used in hip hop, he is one of the most widely sampled rock and roll artists in history. Mayb I will work on this.... DFS (talk) 00:19, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please do so. Comments on Talk to the effect of "you guys need to do this" don't go very far... Ensure that you insertion includes references to support being "one of the most widely sampled artists" so your work isn't either flagged or reverted as opinion/original research. Ckruschke (talk) 18:17, 28 August 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke[reply]

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Non-encyclopedic BLP edits

Iceagebaby has been making non-encyclopedic edits to this article, some examples of which are below. (I unintentionally reverted the ClueBot vandlalism detection, which I then also reverted--my apologies for the noise.)

No citation to say who was doing the comparing or what Squier thought or why "one-man" is in quotes: "At this time, Squier was already compared to "one-man" Led Zeppelin as well as Queen, which he himself found complimentary."
This is a loaded statement that doesn't have a citation, but even if it did, it's still a conjecture by someone: "which alienated his hard rock fanbase."
These two fragments were added to a sentence already flagged for needing a citation: "whose booming drum intro (Squier himself beating a drum case layed on top of drummer Bobby Chouinard's backbeat)", and "thus making Squier the "unlikely hero" of the genre".
No citation: "where he continued to receive strong airplay even after falling off the charts few years later"
No citation, considered by whom?: "At this point, he was considered as one of the greatest arena rock acts of early 80's, along with Queen and Def Leppard."
Unclear why the adverb "recklessly" was inserted here: "Squier spent the next three years working recklessly on his sixth full-length".

Remember, this is a BLP. Dgpop (talk) 15:43, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, this article is bordering on promo copy. Worrying lack of objectivity throughout. tim.wilson.online (talk) 16:36, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs more pictures

Given Billy Squier's profile in the 1970s and 1980s, this page needs at least one or two pictures of Squier. There is one picture of him on Wikimedia Commons, so would it be okay for other users or I to contribute that and other pictures? --H.AFI.17 (talk)