Great song. I love Billy Squier. They say (and "they" includes Billy himself) his career was severely damaged by that Rock Me Tonight video, but I love the song. I managed to miss that video until the YouTube era.
Yes, Nuno is involved. Saudades de Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anyone buy guitar magazines, at least in the '80s? Invariably, I'd read the interviews and think, "Oh, man! This is going to be the greatest album ever," and then I'd flip to the reviews in the same issue and it...
I really didn't think too highly of the hair bands--Poison, Winger, Warrant, etc.--when they came around. I like them a little better now, but they kind of opened the door for the death of rock and the rise of grunge. I think Extreme and maybe Mr. Big and some others were trying to scale back...
Oh, hell yeah. Love at First Sting is great back to front, just to mention their biggie from the '80s. Love Blackout, too. Rainbow doesn't get a lot of love after Dio's departure, but I really like Bent Out of Shape.
Get him Creatures of the Night. That leads in with some seriously heavy drums that any boy would love. The MTV Unplugged disc should make him a fan, too.