Billy Falcon (born July 13, 1956) 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.
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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 more than 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 (a.k.a. Improper Attire)
1979 Priceless EP (as Billy Falcon Group)
1980 Falcon Around
1983 School of Hard Knocks EP (as Billy & Myla)
1986 Spark in the Dark
1988 Haunted Guitar
1991 Pretty Blue World
1994 Letters From A Paper Ship
2003 Songs About Girls
2004 Released (recorded in 1995)
2006 Made Man
2011 WHEN
2018 Holy Fire
Singles
Songwriting credits
Stevie Nicks
Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks (1991)
"Sometimes It's a Bitch" [Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]
Bon Jovi
Crush (2000)
"Just Older" [Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]
"Mystery Train" [Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]
"Say It Isn't So" [Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]
"I Could Make a Living Out of Lovin' You" [Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Billy Falcon]
Bounce (2002)
"Bounce" [Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Billy Falcon]
"Undivided [Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Billy Falcon]
100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong (2004)
"These Arms Are Open All Night" [Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]
"Kidnap an Angel" [Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]
"Another Reason to Believe" [Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Billy Falcon, J. Steele]
"Last Man Standing" [Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]
Have a Nice Day (2005)
"Last Man Standing" [Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Falcon]