songwriting side. Some also found the album's polished sound somewhat outdated, since at the time of the album's release, alternative rock and especially grunge began ruling the rock scene. Peaking only at #117 in US, the album became his lowest charting since The Tale of the Tape. However, it contain the radio hits, "She Goes Down" and "Facts of Life". The former is Squier's last Top 5 on the Mainstream Rock charts and his highest charting radio single of the 1990s. Creatures of Habit was supported with a tour. In 1993, Squier released his final album with Capitol Records, Tell the Truth, with different sets of musicians performing the various tracks. Despite Squier himself comparing it favorably to Don't Say No, Capitol did little to nothing to promote it, which ended up becoming his first album not to chart at all and selling 37,000 US copies, per Nielsen Soundscan. After the album's release, Squier walked away from the label and music business as a whole. Later career (1994–2022) In 1994, Squier's original screenplay Run To Daylight was short-listed at the Sundance Film Festival. The film itself was never produced. In 1995, Capitol released 16 Strokes: The Best of Billy Squier. On February 17, 1998, during the initial run of Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God, a monodrama about the life of Freddie Mercury, Squier debuted a song that he wrote in memory of his friend, titled "I Have Watched You Fly", on stage before a performance of the play. He introduced the song by saying, "I was privileged to know Freddie as a friend. I'm honored to share the stage with him in the afterlife." That same year Squier released independently his last studio album to date, a stripped-down acoustic blues effort titled Happy Blue. The album was both stylistically and also sonically a great departure from his typical hard rock sound, with the only musician playing on the album being Squier himself accompanied by acoustic guitar with no overdubs. For this album, Squier reworked his hit song "The Stroke" into an old-fashioned blues number, "Stroke Me Blues". The year 2001 marked the 20th anniversary of Don't Say No. In the same year, Squier embarked on a concert tour that was his first large one since the 1991 tour for Creatures of Habit. In 2004, "Everybody Wants You" was remixed with the group Fischerspooner's song "Emerge" and