I don't care about the rocky tonite video. He is handsome AF,great singer, songwriter, guitarist and I still listen to his music.

@mjrydsfast

Жыл бұрын

I'm a male comfortable in my sexuality and I approve this post. 😂

@mistym1374

Жыл бұрын

If you think about it - those folks making the fuss about the dancing are all boomers now - still homophobes and backwards

@KOSMICKEN09

Жыл бұрын

It's just a video ugh there were lots of silly videos in the eighties Rocky Tonight like Sylvester Stallone? Lol

@flashinthepan3273

Жыл бұрын

@@KOSMICKEN09 Just admit it if you enjoy big 🥒

@publikenemi49

Жыл бұрын

He lost a good swath of his male fans from this video

Best lyric, 'You spend your pension in loneliness and alcohol'. Never understood that line until yrs later as an adult. Brilliant!

@bb-gc2tx

Ай бұрын

whats it mean ?

Wow, I think this is the first hearing Billy talk. I've been listening to his music for 40 years, and this is the first time hearing him speak!

Billy is one of those amazing vocalists who has a complete change in the sound of his singing voice compared to that of his speaking voice. Very unique tone and lots of vocal power.

@PerpetualArt

6 жыл бұрын

BROTHER TRUTH ,Great singer, and a great guitarist as well.

I dont care about any videos that seem cringeworthy, most modern videos are worse. What matters is that his music well and truly rocks

@edp3202

2 жыл бұрын

At the time it was shocking considering his image. The video ended his career briefly.

@KOSMICKEN09

Жыл бұрын

- he continued touring and making albums his career didn't "end" it's one of these These things blown out of proportion on the hater net 😭

@mooknick242

Жыл бұрын

lol no..there is no modern or post-modern video that is more cringeworthy..you can tell yourself there is i guess but there isn't

@spikefivefivefive

Ай бұрын

@@KOSMICKEN09 - He himself even admitted his career stalled as a result of the video.

@DSilvergun

11 күн бұрын

@@KOSMICKEN09 He went from playing stadiums to much smaller venues - nearly overnight.

Our tv commercials were even cool as fuck in the 80's!

@georgebailey8872

Жыл бұрын

Started with “where’s the beef”

@MondoMiami

Жыл бұрын

Everything was cool until “diversity” hijacked our culture and killed it.

I could not have survived high school if it wasn't for Billy. He had a song that fit everything I went through and gave me the strength to persevere through it all the break ups and the make ups plus helping me make sense of life's lessons. Learn how to bend learn how to break learn how to mend broken heartaches. Thanks Billy.

@flashinthepan3273

Жыл бұрын

Get a grip...

@jamesdykes2968

2 ай бұрын

@@flashinthepan3273 I myself would not have survived high school if it weren't for my insulin. Top that one.

Love his music, one of the most underrated rockers ever

Wow! Those commercials really took me back! I haven't seen those in years. Somebody could make alot of $$ just playing MTV just like it aired from the 80's til it quit playing videos. Nostalgia is powerful!

@robertpolnicky7702

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like it would beat the hell out of anything current in music

@savagedick1462

Жыл бұрын

Yep!

Theyre trolling him with that first commercial......jeez.

I was born in 1996 and I feel like I could just watch commercials from the 80’s and be just as entertained by them as I would be watching the tv shows of the 80’s.

@kristyndodge9238

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the commercials were way kooler!! 🙋

HE IS GORGEOUS

@officialBillySquier_

10 ай бұрын

Hello Sarah How are you doing? It's a pleasure to have you here!

I get such a quaint feeling watching this with the commercials and everything. Wish i could stream old live tv.. there's something soothing about it.

Hell, I just pretended I was back when the world made sense for a while...

Billy is a force of nature! ⚡️ He moved a lot like Mick Jagger. Had Jagger done that video (What am I saying, did you see his videos for…well, anything - but, specifically his solo work? C’mon!), no one would have thought twice. But Billy got skewered? Makes no sense. Love you Billy! ❤️

@danielc1978

Жыл бұрын

good point...

@eako2107

7 ай бұрын

GREAT comparison. So true

Love to see Alan Hunter interview Squier again sometime in 2024.

I loved this! I could hear him speak for hours...and look at him too ;)

@guddergo7116

4 жыл бұрын

Lemme cool u off

@csweetme64

3 жыл бұрын

You know it girl ..they just haters and are so jealous they are not as sexy as this bad boy...ummmmm

@girlnextdoorgrooming

Жыл бұрын

It's interesting to see how different he looked when he aged period I think he looked a lot like Charlie Watts when he got old

Anybody else find it coincidental that the commercial at 1:37 was played during this Squier interview? It's eerily similar to the Rock Me Tonite video.

@jasonmichael3676

3 жыл бұрын

Curious, gay, and super-gay LOL.

@barbaraj.6309

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same.

@goldielocks591

3 жыл бұрын

Omg yes lol

@girlnextdoorgrooming

Жыл бұрын

@1:37

@dianahohimer1107

5 ай бұрын

Good catch ✌

Hes so cute

@goldielocks591

3 жыл бұрын

He isssssss omg I wanna see him dance for me!! Lol ❤️❤️❤️❤️😜🥰

An interview like this would never be put on contemporary MTV.

Hilarious how that first commercial was like rock me tonite. It's like they're trolling him.

At 13:02 BS addresses Rock Me Tonight saying that the vid wasn't "representative" of his band. In other words, fans, please come back.

He said his favorite band was the Smithereens! I mean A girl Like You! Love Billy Squier!

@billseka4141

25 күн бұрын

I really liked that song too, it stood out when I heard it on the radio.

God I miss the original MTV!!!! Those were the days!!

@icecreamforcrowhurst

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, for sure. Who knew it would ever end? Boomers had the best of everything, Millenials have all the technology, Gen X had Music Television.

@sharoncurtis5820

Жыл бұрын

@@icecreamforcrowhurst Gen X...we had it really good. Music and videos was all we needed

Thank you for keeping the original commercials in. What great memories

@analoguecity3454

3 жыл бұрын

Oh....yes!

@samsonian9468

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, did you notice the commercial seemed to mock Billy Squier's Need You Tonight video?

@miller6910

2 жыл бұрын

@@samsonian9468 Need You Tonite? I don't think he did a song with that title.

@samsonian9468

2 жыл бұрын

@@miller6910 I meant Rock Me Tonight.. I'm a big INXS fan too and the song titles are similar. Haha

@samsonian9468

2 жыл бұрын

@@miller6910 I see you're an INXS fan too! :)

God I am loving that sweater.

@ltjjenkins

Жыл бұрын

Another great choice

I wish as a CHRISTIAN Man that I would have had cable and could take in the mass of videos because I Pray for these guys and girls. I love em' and care for their Family and even their souls. There is a lot of GOD Given Talent there and I love em'.

Billy was the Man. Guy had some amazing rock hits that'll live on forever including "Rock Me Tonite."

Thanks for not cutting the commercials enjoy these too.

@theoriginalmtvvjs6302

7 жыл бұрын

cgeorge6786 check out "The Original MTV VJs" Facebook page for more footage

@shelleyinthecity

3 жыл бұрын

Especially that first Panasonic commercial that was obviously inspired by the Rock Me Tonite video.

Love ya Billy

Love seeing a reto video of billy if anyone have anymore please post.

I bet he couldn't rip that dope ass sweater.

@edp3202

2 жыл бұрын

What an 80s sweater

@jamesdykes2968

25 күн бұрын

What did I do? - The Sweater, 2024

I was born in 82. At around the age of 2 I took over the living room and binged MTV. While other toddlers/kids watched cartoons, I was watching MTV. This video is bringing me back.

Thanks for posting, I've been looking for some fresh Retro interviews of Billy. :) ;)

He rocks

I watched this when it originally aired. I remember that interview, I was 18. I know that I have not seen those commercials since then and I barely remember that Billy Squire video, complete with the Twin Towers in it. That was a twenty minute time travel trip. That just depressed the hell out of me and made me feel young again at the same time. I do miss my youth and the 80's in a very painful way. Life really does race by.

@briangervais5311

Жыл бұрын

I'm about a year younger than you I can relate,hang in there brother.

@drssexy2142

6 ай бұрын

sort your fucking life out

I'm glad the commercials are in and the dials are on the TV.

Thanks for posting this. Billy was trying to do damage control for that Rock me Tonight video. Its interesting to see what he said then versus what he said years later. Here he still has hope that his career could be set right with a new video of the band performing and a great song and good album. But it was not to be and despite his efforts to continue to make great music, many of his fans defected and the musical stream diverted from AOR to Hairbands and Hip Hop.

@bmorebob6624

5 жыл бұрын

Ernest B it’s a shame because his music is really of a better quality than most of the hair bands that released albums in the 80s.

@rbilleaud

2 жыл бұрын

It's always struck me as strange the way that whole thing with the video went down. It's always been put down to homophobia, but that doesn't really make sense. I mean, you had Queen, who were megastars, no question about Freddie's sexual orientation, even if it was never explicitly stated. You had Judas Priest, which as Rob Halford once stated in an interview, "it hit you in the face really with all the leather and studs, it couldn't have been more obvious." It wasn't like rock n roll was devoid of gay men. And even though Billy Squier was categorically NOT gay (although you gotta admit many of his stage moves were pretty effeminate) he was basically blacklisted. It was all so weird. You almost wondered if there was some other hidden reason the record industry was so ready to drop him.

@ltjjenkins

Жыл бұрын

Well said. Looks like he's making a hostage tape and you can't tell if he's the begging parent or the pleading dui arrest.

@jimshipp7776

Жыл бұрын

​@@rbilleaudInteresting take.

love is the hero great duet between Billy and Freddie!!!!

@adams7405

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing backing vocals

Freddie is great and so is this song, but he made "Love is the hero" a Queen song.

@rexsexson5349

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Queen mixed with Talking Heads.

Win a contest with Tina Turner..... oh hellz yeah... God i miss 1986

Can we just all get behind how great it is that the Panasonic commercial after the first interview segment features a man prancing around his living room in a (occasionally) pink tank top?

@jamesdykes2968

2 ай бұрын

lol, I was looking forward to being the only one to notice....I wonder if Billy saw the commercial while being interviewed.

He was my FAVORITE in my young teens.

❤you rock man

The Rockme tonite video put Billy on the map of rock n roll . Go watch Rock me tonite , it'll blow your mind !

PIPER was a killer band! 2 great albums. The 2nd album 'Can't Wait' is a classic!!

@KOSMICKEN09

Жыл бұрын

Yes they were a bit like power pop good band

he's more serious and more articulate than I had expected (no, not Alan Hunter, fool!)

@edp3202

2 жыл бұрын

Alan good interviewer

@crapple009

2 жыл бұрын

@@edp3202 Compared to Mark Goodman, yes.

I love how classy Billy Squier is he doesn't get offended by this very inappropriate interviewer who has no manners

I wonder if that VHS commercial was the inspiration for the 'Rock Me Tonight' video?

@cuddlycooper8169

3 жыл бұрын

not likely, the commercial was surely filmed in 1986, it came after..plus its playing "Addicted to love", a 1985 song. Its very likely the commercial was inspired by the video

Did anyone notice the Panasonic commercial seemed to make fun of Billy Squier's Rock Me Tonight video?

Alan Hunter was on War to Settle the Score WWF on MTV and is now on 80s on 8 on SiriusXM.

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!####😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

whaa? theres no reality shit interrupting? Actual music and conversation with a musician???

@rexsexson5349

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I miss my childhood.

I was 8yrs old. I remember them days back when they had Saturday morning cartoons. Hip Hop was not even a threat back then. But had a lot of fun as a kid back then.

@rexsexson5349

4 жыл бұрын

86 had walk this way Run DMC with Aerosmith. I was 9 in 86.

@edp3202

2 жыл бұрын

I was 14

@jasondill7505

2 жыл бұрын

I was 9 in 86

Truth: Billy was and is SUCH a talented singing/songwriting powerhouse, and such a great musician, and producer, that unfortunately, got caught under the wheels of a system that poorly mismanaged, misinterpreted, and misunderstood him, and did not allow him proper control of his own destiny. If he’d just been aloud to organically grow, and wasn’t managed by a never ending circus of disingenuous, dishonest, and talentless bonehead goons, who did NOT have his best interests at heart, and were looking to only fist f%#$ his bank account, he would’ve and should’ve been one of the marquee acts of the 80’s AND 90’s for that matter. It’s just sad, and tragic. Billy Squier is living proof that you can have it all, talent, money, power, fame, opportunity, and ability, and do everything right, and play by the rules, and not be a idiot, or alcoholic, or drug attic, with a need hanging out of your arm, and STILL that industry will EAT you ALIVE! And then discard you like waste! And you best believe that ain’t got shit to do with one wack ass video for ‘Rock Me Tonight”…and whoever says it does is an idiot. One stupid video has never ruined a rockstar of that calibers career. I mean, hello, were you watching videos in the 80’s?

@bb-gc2tx

2 жыл бұрын

billy won in the end he got out of business owning all his publishing and thanks to being most sampled artist in hip hop history is worth about 70 million bucks today. he also should be in hof

Benetton! I remember when you just weren't cool if you didn't wear something of theirs. Billy was great!

I taught Billy all his dance moves in the video Rock Me Tonight! LOLOLOLOL

What's wrong with the video of Rock Me Tonight? 🙋✨

With adverts too! 👌🏻

I always thought Billy Squire would of been a good fit in Van Halen... who knows

@Ac22768

2 жыл бұрын

It’s Squier. And also literally says it in the video title.

@jeffkaufman9875

Жыл бұрын

Pedantic any? Sheesh!..

@girlnextdoorgrooming

Жыл бұрын

Squire did not do nearly enough drugs to fit in with Van halen.

@KOSMICKEN09

Жыл бұрын

@@Ac22768 everyone spells his name wrong lol it's maddening

@GuyWithTheThingOnTheTable

Жыл бұрын

​@@jeffkaufman9875 He can be pedantic. He can be pedantic.

Fact remains! !!! In the beginning Nothing to let go of! !! Nothing remains! !!

You can tell the new album was produced by the same guy who did Rush's Power Windows. 80's overload

@mattmarkus4868

2 жыл бұрын

still a great sounding record

@mattmarkus4868

2 жыл бұрын

and now after listening to the video for this album he was promoting, it sounds nothing like power windows. This has an awful gated snare sound, and every other awful production cliche of this time. so no you can't tell at all it was the same producer.

Thr pride of Swellesley MA

Poor Billy. Here he is...trying to come back from that homoerotic "Rock Me Tonight" video...and the first commercial they break to is a very gay Panasonic ad. He just couldn't win.

@tomitstube

6 жыл бұрын

lol, i'd heard about it and just watched it, wow, billy had some pretty effeminate body language for a straight guy, (the 80's were a strange decade) he reminds me of a guitar player i was in a band with, same thing, straight but if you didn't know him you would wonder.

@anibell6801

5 жыл бұрын

It was the 80’s we were all weird!

@ariesleorising9421

5 жыл бұрын

BlueEyes 1970 😂😂😂

@lucianakueker5001

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that it must have gave him flashbacks.lol

VHS HI-FI !! Hell yea. where can i pick up one of those??

@rexsexson5349

4 жыл бұрын

Goodwill 🤣

The bagel and Halloween comments were awkward...Billy refused to play the fool and continue that banter.... Damage control on Rock Me Tonight...he was trying to patch the ship, but glam rock was hitting big in 86. He looked forward to a " major tour " and more Platinum, but must have quickly learned after this interview, it was ending...Love is A Hero is a good song, but he needed a real catchy, radio friendly tune to save his career....

:( The WTC at the beginning of that video. Worlds away.

I was reminded today three different times how old I'm getting-and this video is one of them.The other? A kid, maybe 12,he asked me what "three-way-calling" was,and was it like "old days" sexting? I said "I'm far too young.I have no idea".Third one? Effen AARP app/info in my snail mail box.I'm not even 50 wth?! (close though-ouch)

Signs of life was bad ass

His eyes look like Richard Remerez.

@crapple009

2 жыл бұрын

You're right about the Ramirez-like eyes!

Class FKN act.

Billy saw that Panasonic commercial and had an epiphany ...”man I need to make a video where I too dance around like a poncy hairdresser ... that will be a great career move!”

@rbilleaud

2 жыл бұрын

That's just the way he is. I mean if we're being completely honest, Billy's stage moves have always struck me as being "effeminate". Nothing against that, some people just demonstrate their rhythmic exhilaration in different ways. All singers have a style and that happened to be his. So seeing him prance around was not completely out of character for him. But it's agreed that from a purely PR point of view, not the best choice.

@ticoangelo

2 жыл бұрын

it was the other way around. rock me tonight in 84, panasonic ad in 86

@KOSMICKEN09

Жыл бұрын

It's so tiresome hearing about this video - it got played to death on MTV I saw plenty of videos as silly as his.

@ralphfurley404

Жыл бұрын

It worked for mick jagger

@jamesdykes2968

25 күн бұрын

That was too gay for us. - Poncy Hairdressers everywhere.

Page and Plant = Squire

@crapple009

2 жыл бұрын

Chris Squire??

Wish the audio was better!

At 1:32, who also thinks that the Panasonic commercial they showed was deliberately targeted at Billy Squire, to mock his disastrous "Rock Me Tonight" music video? It's just to dead on accurate to not be a parody. Even the set looks very close to the same one that was used in the video. Total coincidence? Or deliberate planning? You decide.

Little known fact : the video for “Rock me tonight “ was patient zero for the Aids epidemic

@Marcel_Audubon

4 жыл бұрын

Well known fact: some people are still laughing about AiDS and proudly embracing their homophobia even 40 years later

@theespawner6278

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@jimshipp7776

Жыл бұрын

​@@Marcel_AudubonAgreed.

@jamesdykes2968

18 күн бұрын

@@Marcel_Audubon Monkeypox was kind of funny, at least.

Why couldn’t they just do the Rock Me Tonight video like this smh. Poor Billy

Gawd, Alan Hunter really couldn't connect at all in this interview. Have a bagel, which is stale by now. Maybe we'll watch Billy eat a bagel. Wtf was that? No wonder the veejay platform tanked.

Don’t be salty Billy, you signed off on it

Can something be done about the sound?? It sounds muffled & hard to understand....I would love to hear this. 😊

Man the high eq on these clips are really toast - sounds like this is coming out of a small tube - still cool to see though

@ticoangelo

2 жыл бұрын

well, it's a vhs from the 80's. why are you surprised?

@chrisridenhour

2 жыл бұрын

@@ticoangelo Because it doesn’t match my memory

2:15,. This is where Biggie Smalls got the bassline for "hypnotize"

His thoughts on "Rock Me Tonite" video 13:03

@TroyGrey

3 жыл бұрын

Cire Stamey Thank you. That was where I came in for!

@cirestamey9243

3 жыл бұрын

@@TroyGrey yw :)

This is a clip of Billy Squier in career freefall.

@trentallman984

11 ай бұрын

Well, it wasn't all his fault. Music changes over time.

@meatwad1

11 ай бұрын

@@trentallman984 It was that "Rock Me Tonight" video.

3:04, Holy Cow, who knew James Taylor had a Heavy Metal phase! Now I've seen everything ;)

@Flerg3

6 ай бұрын

Lmao 🤣

Wish we could of seen him throw the stale bagel at Alan Hunter!

@bb-gc2tx

Жыл бұрын

hes a typical dumb libtard.

There's definitely an elephant in the room rock me tonight

Allen Hunter: You going to dress up for Halloween? Billy: You still have that horse's outfit? I wanna be in the front part this year though.

@loganclapp2940

3 жыл бұрын

one of the most hilarious Billy Squier lines i've ever heard

All I will say is that visually Billy should keep both hands on the guitar.

"Love Is The Hero" is not a good song. It has a drum machine and no hooks. Sounds like he's pretty much just phoning it in. He REALLY needed to rally to come back from the unpleasantness of "Rock Me Tonite" debacle. Unfortunately, in spite of working on the follow-up album for two solid years ("Enough is enough!"), he didn't rally. THAT is what tanked his career. I mean, here he is getting a 30 minute slot interview on MTV in 1986. He wasn't being treated like a leper. He just didn't deliver the goods.

@bb-gc2tx

2 жыл бұрын

his tour crashed after rock me tonite came out. what really showed how bad it was people bought tickets before video came out and then didnt even bother show up. billy himself said video destroyed his career

@violetgc6049

2 жыл бұрын

@@bb-gc2tx well yeah, he’s gonna say that, isn’t he? Rather than saying “my follow-up album sucked.” He had an opportunity to come back swinging, and he fumbled the pass.

@crapple009

2 жыл бұрын

@@violetgc6049 True. And that sweater didn't help matters much..

@laurastuhler4791

Жыл бұрын

He was done at this point, obviously somebody really liked him because the fact he was on MTV almost TWO AND A HALF YEARS after his last hit was really a testament to how good he was. Hair bands were in full stride at this point and outside of Journey, Genesis and Pink Floyd, AOR was completely dead. His new album was terrible, "Love is the Hero" sucked.

1/20/24 Squires bass player in the mid eighties was a lot different than his early 80s bass player...

Baby Ruth... Butterfinger.

The Panasonic commercial features a hunk in pajama pants prancing around in his dark apartment just like Billy did...

What a long shooting scheduled at the historic Puck Building in Astor Place NYC. , Lonely is the Night , Stroke me, Love is a Hero and some other one I forgot ..I was the hair and makeup on this and the others ..Poor Billy was under so much stress that day ...Honestly he deserved better , on all counts the videos were awful artistically, not due to Billy Squire , but rather the producers and mangers should have seen this on the shoot . I stood on the side and had to shut my mouth . No one want's to hear criticism from the crew .

@marissadower-morgan3313

4 жыл бұрын

Everybody want's you ( I remembered) the other video we shot.

@bb-gc2tx

4 жыл бұрын

Puck building is the name of the building in the love is the hero video ?

@marissadower-morgan3313

4 жыл бұрын

@@bb-gc2tx except the location shots with a helicopter...like the wold trade center towers

@bb-gc2tx

4 жыл бұрын

@@marissadower-morgan3313 great song great video billy is an all time great in my book and should be in hall of fame . you said you could tell he was very nervous day of video ?

@marissadower-morgan3313

4 жыл бұрын

@@bb-gc2tx Yes as I recall. Billy?????? is that you ?

It created a false impression that he was gay that is. That's what he meant but coudln't say that.

@hardluck8732

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, it's too bad he couldn't just say that.....it may have actually helped.

I wonder if it's too late to enter the Tina Turner contest....

Twin towers in the opening shot of the video. 😢

Back when Music Television was about music, before the long campaign of hijacking youth culture and slowly reprogramming it, which we are realizing the results of today.

I love Billy Squier, but that 'Rock me tonight' video.... cringe worthy😬😬😬

@viletantrum

4 жыл бұрын

Lol...a lot of his videos were cringeworthy

@theespawner6278

4 жыл бұрын

i remember going to work that week waiting to see if anyone admitted they liked the video. me and my roomies were dumb founded when we saw it

@edp3202

2 жыл бұрын

@@theespawner6278 I remember a critic said billy was swishy in it. Swishy!

Billy looks a bit like Slash in this video.

@JohnnyCatFitz

5 жыл бұрын

Brian May