Billy Falcon
Billy Falcon is an American musician, composer and music producer. He released rock albums throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, as well as appearing on The Way International's "High Country Caravan". He is currently active in the Nashville, Tennessee area with the band The Sowing Circle.
Career
He signed his first record contract with a major label at age 18. Falcon, a prolific writer, considers himself a "reporter" of his life experiences in lyrics and melodies.Pretty Blue World, released in 1991, produced Falcon's highest-charting single, "Power Windows", which broke into the Top 40. The same album contains "Heaven’s Highest Hill", which articulates the pain of having to tell his three-year-old daughter that her mother had died, echoing the true-life event of the loss of his wife Myla to breast cancer.
He signed a deal with Mercury Records after Jon Bon Jovi contacted him about working together in the early 1990s. Falcon has co-written over thirty songs on several Bon Jovi albums. "Give in to Me", co-written with Falcon's daughter Rose and Elisha Hoffman, is featured in the Sony Pictures film Country Strong and performed by Faith Hill on the film's soundtrack. Other songs he has written have been covered by Stevie Nicks, Cher, Manfred Mann, Sherrie Austin, Meat Loaf and Trace Adkins. Over his career, Falcon has released a dozen albums.
Falcon has lived in Nashville for the past 19 years. Over the past four years, he has performed with the band The Sowing Circle and continues to write, perform, record and produce albums for artists, including his daughter.
Discography
;Albums- 1977 Billy Falcon's Burning Rose
- 1979 Billy Falcon
- 1979 Priceless EP
- 1980 Falcon Around
- 1983 School of Hard Knocks EP
- 1986 Spark in the Dark
- 1988 Haunted Guitar
- 1991 Pretty Blue World
- 1994 Letters From A Paper Ship
- 2003 Songs About Girls
- 2004 Released
- 2006 Made Man
- 2011 WHEN
Year | Song | US | Album |
1977 | "Friday Night" | — | Billy Falcon's Burning Rose |
1977 | "Sail Away" | — | Billy Falcon's Burning Rose |
1978 | "Sailor Boy" | — | Billy Falcon's Burning Rose |
1980 | "Rocks in His Head" | — | Falcon Around |
1980 | "I Never Did It With Him" | — | Falcon Around |
1983 | "There's Nothing to Do Today" | — | School of Hard Knocks EP |
1983 | "In the Arms of Love" | — | School of Hard Knocks EP |
1987 | "What Kind of Love Is This" | — | Haunted Guitar |
1988 | "Haunted Guitar" | — | Haunted Guitar |
1988 | "Spark in the Dark" | — | Haunted Guitar |
1991 | "Power Windows" | 35 | Pretty Blue World |
1991 | "Heaven's Highest Hill" | — | Pretty Blue World |
1991 | "Married in the Morning" | — | Pretty Blue World |
1994 | "I Like How It Feels" | — | Paper Ship |
Songwriting credits
;Stevie Nicks- *"Sometimes It's a Bitch"
- Crush
- *"Just Older"
- *"Mystery Train"
- *"Say It Isn't So"
- *"I Could Make a Living Out of Lovin' You"
- Bounce
- *"Bounce"
- *"Undivided
- 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
- *"These Arms Are Open All Night"
- *"Kidnap an Angel"
- *"Another Reason to Believe"
- *"Last Man Standing"
- Have a Nice Day
- *"Last Man Standing"
- *"Story of My Life"
- *"Complicated"
- Lost Highway
- *"Everybody's Broken
- *"I Love This Town"
- The Circle
- *"When We Were Beautiful"
- *"Superman Tonight"
- *"Love's the Only Rule"
- What About Now
- *"Because We Can"
- *"Amen"
- *"That's What the Water Made Me"
- *"What's Left of Me"
- *"Beautiful World"
- *"With These Two Hands"
- *"Into the Echo"
- Burning Bridges
- *"A Teardrop to the Sea"
- *"Who Would You Die For"
- *"Fingerprints"
- *"Life Is Beautiful"
- This House Is Not for Sale
- *"This House Is Not for Sale"
- *"Labor of Love"
- *"Born Again Tomorrow"
- *"New Year's Day"
- *"The Devil's in the Temple"
- *"Scars on This Guitar"
- *"Real Love"
- *"I Will Drive You Home"
- *"Touch of Grey"
- *"Color Me In"
- Country Strong: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- *"Give in to Me"
- Hang Cool Teddy Bear
- *"Elvis in Vegas"