Biography
Born July 13, 1956, in Valley Stream, New York, Billy Falcon spent his formative years in nearby Rosedale. From 1978 through 1988 he issued several albums across multiple imprints, among them Improper Attire on United Artists in 1979 and the Columbia release Billy and Myla in 1985. Jon Bon Jovi, an admirer who recalled Falcon’s popularity as a New Jersey club act, reached out to explore a collaboration. The contact led to a Mercury contract, with Bon Jovi co-producing the 1991 album Pretty Blue World. Although the record included performances by Bon Jovi, Aldo Nova, Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers, and Kenny Aronoff, and drew favorable notices, sales remained limited. The upbeat single “Power Windows” nevertheless climbed to the AOR Top 20 and crossed into the pop Top 40. Falcon scored another modest success when “Sometimes It’s a Bitch,” a composition he shared with Bon Jovi, appeared on Stevie Nicks’s 1991 anthology Timespace. He also performed at the fifth Farm Aid concert in March 1992. A follow-up, Letters From a Paper Ship, arrived in 1994 yet likewise failed to expand his audience. After that, Falcon stopped releasing records, though he kept performing—having moved to Nashville—and contributed several songs to Bon Jovi’s platinum-certified 2001 album Crush. In 2002 his daughter Rose Falcon issued her debut, Breakable, which Billy Falcon produced and for which the pair co-wrote ten tracks.
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