IT TAKES a brave man to go it alone, in music or in life, and with ‘Tale Of The Tape’ Boston-born Billy Squier showed he had sufficient backbone (and material) to put his own name squarely behind his songs.Produced by ‘prog. professor’ Eddie Offord and featuring top names from the US East Coast rock fraternity (including guitarist Bruce Kulick, later to join Kiss), ‘Tale…’ was the record that established Squier as a singer/songwriter/guitarist of genuine statureTrue, he would have bigger-selling albums, but none more influential, with ‘The Big Beat’ now topping the list of most sampled songs ever; throw in numbers as downright potent as ‘Young Girls’, Axl Rose fave ‘Calley O’ & radio hit ‘You Should Be High Love’ and you have an album that laid the foundations for a multi-platinum career that continues to this day…

Fully remastered, 4,000 work essay by Paul Suter, reinstated original artwork, previously unpublished photos, track by track run down by Billy and 2 bonus tracks.

Track listing: ‘The Big Beat’, ‘Calley Oh’, ‘Rich kid’, ‘Like I’m Lovin’ You’, ‘Who Knows What A Love Can Do’, ‘You Should Be High Love’, ‘Who’s Your Boyfriend’, ‘The Music’s All Right’, ‘Young Girls’. Bonus tracks: ‘The Music’s All Right’ (accoustic demo), ‘Young Girls’ (abbreviated accoustic demo).