When Billy Squier Refused to Tour With Ringo Starr

Billy Squier recalled being informed he’d by no means work once more after refusing an invite to tour with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band.

He spent 4 years as a member of the previous Beatle’s touring group from 2006. But in a latest interview with radio host Eddie Trunk, Squier defined that he was initially requested to hit the street a number of years earlier.

“Ringo actually asked me to go out with him around 2000, and I didn’t,” Squier mentioned. “I felt that it was incredibly flattering just to be asked to do it. But I had two little godchildren in my life, and I really wanted to spend the summer with them. So I thanked him and didn’t do it.”

He famous that “it was quite interesting because the guy who’d left him at that time told my agent, ‘Billy will never work in this industry again.’ It’s one of those lines – you go, ‘What? OK, well, that’s the way it goes!’ I know why I’m doing what I’m doing.”

The warning proved to be with out advantage; Starr known as Squier again later. “So I said yes,” he recalled. “I thought, ‘Yeah, why not? It could be fun.’ You know, they take care of you, you play with some great musicians, you play with a Beatle – how bad can it be? It was great – I had a great time. I did a couple of years with him and that sorta got me going again.”

After leaving the band, Squier wrote and recorded the primary songs he composed in years, though he didn’t formally launch them, posting them on his web site just for a short while. Now that he’s returned to motion with the latest debut of a brand new music, “Harder on a Woman,” he famous there was a chance that the tracks he laid down in 2009 could also be launched in some unspecified time in the future.