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Stardom finds Billy Squier

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 18 August 1981

PROVIDENCE — Billy Squier, newly successful alumnus of Boston bands, the Sidewinders and Piper, is backstage sitting among equipment cases and guitars and sweating, minutes after turning in a hot opening set for Pat Benatar in Providence last week.

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