[caption id=”attachment_1244” align=”alignnone” width=”500” caption=”Billy Squier in a pensive moment…complete with Coke endorsement.”]
Years ago—sometime between Weird Science _and _Iron Eagle III—I heard this movie line:
“The human body is a fascinating specimen. 99% of it may be operating perfectly, yet if that remaining 1% is defective, the body dies.”
Or something like that. The actor may have been Donald Pleasance, and he may have played a detective. Standing over a corpse. Surrounded by police tape and murmuring cops. Or it may have been David Warner, and he may have played a doctor. Standing over a corpse. Surrounded by test tubes and murmuring lab techs.
But I’m not here to talk about 80’s character actors. I’m here to talk about arena-rocker Billy Squier, he of the crunchy riffs and throaty whine.