The meaning behind Billy Squier’s 1981 hard rock hit “The Stroke” is easily mistaken as a sexual one. And for good reason. The pulsating beat, shrieking vocals, and insistent chants of stroke, stroke, stroke… give life to a hot-blooded song that sounds far too risqué for its actual PG meaning. The ear-worming tune is really […]
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