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Billie Jean Horton
Billie Jean Horton (born Billie Jean Jones Eshlimar, June 6, 1933) is a country singer and businesswoman, widow of Hank Williams (married October 1952) and of Johnny Horton (1953 to 1960), known for her long legal fights over the Williams estate.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is the American lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of Green Day, the punk-pop trio behind Dookie (1994, over 20 million copies) and the rock opera American Idiot (2004), later adapted for Broadway; Dookie entered the National Recording Registry in 2024.
Billie Marten
Billie Marten, real name Isabella Sophie Tweddle (born 1999), is an English indie folk singer-songwriter from Ripon, North Yorkshire, not the dance singer Billie Ray Martin; five albums 2016-2025, BBC Sound of 2016 nominee, signed to Fiction Records.
Billion Dollar Babies
Billion Dollar Babies is Alice Cooper's sixth studio album (Warner Bros., February 25, 1973), produced by Bob Ezrin; it hit No. 1 in the US and UK, went RIAA platinum, and features Donovan on the title track. Also the name of a 1977 band and a 2023 Cabbage Patch Kids documentary.
Billy Bob's Texas
Billy Bob's Texas, the "World's Largest Honky Tonk" in Fort Worth's Stockyards, opened April 1, 1981, founded by Billy Bob Barnett and Spencer Taylor in a 1910 former cattle barn, with bull riding, 100,000 square feet, and a 6,000 capacity.
Billy Boyo
Billy Boyo, born Billy Theophilus Rowe, was a Jamaican dancehall deejay who recorded as a child in the early 1980s, best known for One Spliff A Day.
Billy Boys
"The Billy Boys" is a loyalist song from Glasgow celebrating William III and the Battle of the Boyne, later adopted by Rangers fans and banned by UEFA.
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg (Stephen William Bragg, born 1957, Barking, Essex) is an English folk-punk protest singer-songwriter, Red Wedge founder, Mermaid Avenue collaborator with Wilco on Woody Guthrie lyrics, UK number-one hitmaker, and author of The Progressive Patriot.
Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham (William Emanuel Cobham Jr.), Panamanian-American jazz drummer born 1944 in Colón, Panama; Miles Davis and Mahavishnu Orchestra founding drummer, Spectrum (1973) solo debut, open-handed fusion technique.
Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan (William Patrick Corgan, born 1967, Chicago) is the Smashing Pumpkins' singer, guitarist, and songwriter; also Zwan founder, NWA owner, Madame Zuzu's cofounder, and podcast host.
Billy Cox
Billy Cox (born 1941, Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American bassist, one of two regular bass players with Jimi Hendrix: King Kasuals, Woodstock's Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, Band of Gypsys with Buddy Miles, and the 1970 Experience.
Billy Currington
Billy Currington (William Matthew Currington, born 1973, Savannah, Georgia) is an American country singer signed to Mercury Nashville in 2003, with seven studio albums, 12 No. 1 singles, and hits like People Are Crazy.
Billy Davis Jr.
Billy Davis Jr. (born June 26, 1938, St. Louis) is an American R&B and gospel singer, founding member of The 5th Dimension, and Grammy-winning duo partner with wife Marilyn McCoo, known for 'You Don't Have To Be a Star.'
Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy (William Henry Duffy, born 1961) is a Manchester-born guitarist, co-founder of The Cult with Ian Astbury, known for the Gretsch White Falcon, She Sells Sanctuary, and albums Electric and Sonic Temple.
Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine (William Clarence Eckstein, 1914-1993) was an American baritone singer and bandleader from Pittsburgh; he led the first bebop big band (1944-1947) featuring Parker, Gillespie, and Miles Davis, then became a ballad star with MGM's "I Apologize."
Billy Elliot the Musical
Billy Elliot the Musical: Elton John score, Lee Hall book and lyrics, Stephen Daldry direction; 2005 Victoria Palace West End hit (about 4,600 performances, 4 Oliviers), 2008-2012 Broadway run (10 Tonys), based on the 2000 miners' strike film.
Billy Fury
Billy Fury (Ronald Wycherley, 1940–1983) was a Liverpool-born British rock and roll singer-songwriter discovered by Larry Parnes in 1958; his 1960 self-written album The Sound of Fury and 26 UK Top 40 singles made him a pre-Beatles star.
Billy Gibbons
Billy Gibbons (born 1949) is the American guitarist, singer, and ZZ Top founder from Houston, Texas. Known for Pearly Gates, his 1959 Les Paul, .007 strings, peso pick, and solo albums like Perfectamundo.
Billy Gilman
Billy Gilman (William Wendell Gilman III, born 1988) is an American country and bluegrass singer who at 11 became the youngest Billboard country charting artist with "One Voice", won the 2001 AMA Favorite Country New Artist, later finished runner-up on The Voice season 11, and records bluegrass for Pinecastle Records.
Billy Gould
Billy Gould (William David Gould Jr., born 1963) is the founding bassist of Faith No More, a producer, and CEO of Koolarrow Records; known for his Zon Sonus bass, funk-punk style, and the confirmed 2027 band return.
Billy Howerdel
Billy Howerdel (born 1970, West Milford, New Jersey) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer, founding member of A Perfect Circle, frontman of Ashes Divide, and solo artist behind What Normal Was (2022).
Billy Idol
Billy Idol (William Michael Albert Broad, born 1955) is an English rock singer, Generation X frontman turned MTV star, known for Rebel Yell, White Wedding, and 2026 Rock Hall induction.
Billy Idol (album)
Billy Idol (1982) is the English singer's self-titled debut solo album on Chrysalis, produced by Keith Forsey with guitarist Steve Stevens; it peaked at number 45 on the Billboard 200, went Gold in 1983, and launched "White Wedding" and "Hot in the City".
Billy J. Kramer
Billy J. Kramer (William Howard Ashton, born 1943), Liverpool Merseybeat singer with the Dakotas; Epstein-managed Parlophone star whose hits included "Bad to Me", "Little Children", and "Do You Want to Know a Secret".
Billy Joe Royal
Billy Joe Royal (1942-2015) was an American singer from Valdosta, Georgia, whose 1965 Joe South-penned hit "Down in the Boondocks" reached No. 9 pop; he later became a country chart performer with "Burned Like a Rocket" and "Tell It Like It Is."
Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver (1939-2020), Texas outlaw country singer-songwriter, wrote nearly all of Waylon Jennings's Honky Tonk Heroes (1973); his songs were covered by Cash, Presley, and Dylan.
Billy Joel
Billy Joel (William Martin Joel, born 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist, also called the Piano Man, with 150 million records sold, five Grammys, the Gershwin Prize, and a Madison Square Garden residency; distinct from any other Joel or Billy namesake.
Billy Joel discography
Billy Joel discography: the recording catalog of the American singer-pianist, spanning 1971's Cold Spring Harbor to 2001's Fantasies & Delusions, plus the 12x Platinum Stranger, 52nd Street, An Innocent Man, live albums, and box sets.
Billy Mackenzie
Billy Mackenzie (William MacArthur Mackenzie, 1957-1997), Scottish singer of the Associates with Alan Rankine; four-octave voice, Sulk and Party Fears Two, solo Outernational, died in Auchterhouse.
Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean, born Leslie Sebastian Charles in Trinidad in 1950, is a Trinidadian-British singer whose 1980s hits include "Caribbean Queen" and "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car."