Bryan Adams "Reckless" (1984): Track by Track!

<v Speaker 1>Hi, everybody.
<v Speaker 2>This is Chris Hancock from Newfoundland, Canada, and you hosers
<v Speaker 2>are listening to the Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast. Sorry,
<v Speaker 2>but I think it's about time that these guys have
<v Speaker 2>put a spotlight on Canada's national treasure, Brian Adams. Now,
<v Speaker 2>grab your Tim Hortons double double or your case of
<v Speaker 2>Molson Canadian and get ready for a good time.
<v Speaker 3>D it's the summer of twenty twenty four. Do you
<v Speaker 3>remember when you got your first sixth.
<v Speaker 1>Street Yeah, I got it at the five and dime,
<v Speaker 1>played it til my fingers bled. It was a summer
<v Speaker 1>of eighty nine.
<v Speaker 3>Yeo, Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Shirley Can't Be
<v Speaker 3>Serious Podcast. Today we are going to be talking about
<v Speaker 3>one of the biggest albums from nineteen eighty four, Bryan
<v Speaker 3>Adams Reckless Guys.
<v Speaker 1>This album is so freaking baller. I love this album.
<v Speaker 3>How is it that so many great songs on this
<v Speaker 3>album and it's kind of low key popular.
<v Speaker 1>Well, we we talked about that, you know, yesterday, when
<v Speaker 1>we were talking when we when we pre recorded, right,
<v Speaker 1>when we pre talked about stuff which we should never do,
<v Speaker 1>but we I just I was like this is a
<v Speaker 1>guy who just he never got into the glam makeup.
<v Speaker 1>He never had the big hair, he never had the
<v Speaker 1>sexcapades or the drug addictions. I mean he looks like
<v Speaker 1>a guy that I could have gone to high school with, right,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, just just every day American, albeit Canadian guy.
<v Speaker 1>He's not a big, like iconic face. I mean, everybody
<v Speaker 1>knows him, but it's not he's not a character. Right.
<v Speaker 3>You don't remember when he punched out the valet at
<v Speaker 3>the hotel and was arrested for dui and all that.
<v Speaker 1>Stuff, right, yeah, not caught it a urine a'll doing
<v Speaker 1>inappropriate things or exactly inappropriate people. You know.
<v Speaker 3>It's just I told you that, like five of the
<v Speaker 3>videos from this album, he's wearing a white T shirt,
<v Speaker 3>blue jeans, and tennis shoes. He's just happy to be
<v Speaker 3>up there on stage. He doesn't care about looking like
<v Speaker 3>a rock star.
<v Speaker 1>What you said was he he looks like the introductory
<v Speaker 1>skin on ready players. But hey, I mean, if you
<v Speaker 1>find a fifth it works, it works, right. I mean
<v Speaker 1>he's dating a thirty something year old model right now.
<v Speaker 3>The dude's what is he sixty five?
<v Speaker 1>Now? He was he was born at historic date November fifth,
<v Speaker 1>nineteen fifty nine.
<v Speaker 3>You know that this album was released on November fifth,
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, his twenty fifth birthday. Twenty fifth birthday, Yeah, red
<v Speaker 1>letter day in history.
<v Speaker 3>It's a heck of a day for him, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. This guy is from Canada. He is probably on
<v Speaker 1>their Mount Rushmore of Canadian music artist tech. He might
<v Speaker 1>be on the Mount Rushmore of all entertainers. You know
<v Speaker 1>him and Michael J. Fox and John Candy all up
<v Speaker 1>there together.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, like mister Canada.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>His parents are from England. His dad was in the military.
<v Speaker 1>He was in the British military and then when they
<v Speaker 1>moved to Canada, he was in the Canadian military. And
<v Speaker 1>if I'm remembering right, he ended up at like working
<v Speaker 1>with the UN or something like that.
<v Speaker 3>I know. I told you that it would be funny
<v Speaker 3>if he worked with Stuart Copland's dad. If you remember,
<v Speaker 3>Stuart Copland's dad was.
<v Speaker 1>In the CIA, Yeah, overthrowing governments in the Middle East.
<v Speaker 3>Brian Adams's dad is James Bond to Stuart Copland's dad's
<v Speaker 3>Felix Lader.
<v Speaker 1>That was awesome.
<v Speaker 3>I find it interesting. So he was raised in Canada,
<v Speaker 3>first in Ottawa. Then he moved to Vancouver, him and
<v Speaker 3>Jim Vallance and Bruce bear Barron, which we're going to
<v Speaker 3>talk about here in a second. They kind of set
<v Speaker 3>up this hub of musical influence in Vancouver. Shout out
<v Speaker 3>to my buddy Cameron Eckert who lives in Vancouver right now.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean we've talked about this space that they
<v Speaker 1>recorded in several of the guys who are involved here,
<v Speaker 1>including Brian Adams. When we talked about get Ready for
<v Speaker 1>It Motley Crue, I find Jovie right. Yes, Brian Adams
<v Speaker 1>is singing back up on some of Motley Crue's songs
<v Speaker 1>Sticky Sweet, Isn't that nuts? Well, let's get into this album.
<v Speaker 1>It is too good not to dive into immediately from
<v Speaker 1>beginning to end, this is a stellar album. What's our
<v Speaker 1>first song? Out of the Gate?
<v Speaker 3>First song out of the Gate is a song called
<v Speaker 3>One Night Love Affair and You Come.
<v Speaker 1>So when he gets done recording this album, he takes
<v Speaker 1>it to Bruce Allen, his manager, and he plays it
<v Speaker 1>for him. He's like, what do you think? And Bruce
<v Speaker 1>Allen listens to the whole thing and he goes, where's
<v Speaker 1>the rock? Yeah, Well, they went back to the drawing board,
<v Speaker 1>they hit a few songs, touched him up, wrote an
<v Speaker 1>entirely new song. But you listen to this first track
<v Speaker 1>out of the gate, and it is rock in your
<v Speaker 1>freakin' face, pounding drums and a simple two chord power chord.
<v Speaker 1>Donna Donna give me the arena rock right out of
<v Speaker 1>the gate.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely.
<v Speaker 4>So.
<v Speaker 3>You know, he toured with Journey on their Frontiers tour.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and we're.
<v Speaker 3>Going to talk about a particular song here in just
<v Speaker 3>a second that was influenced by that tour. When he
<v Speaker 3>started playing for Journey, he was opening for them, and
<v Speaker 3>he's like, I gotta have bigger songs. I'm playing for
<v Speaker 3>all these people, and straight for the Heart's just not
<v Speaker 3>going to cut it. I mean, I've got to be
<v Speaker 3>like arena rock bangers. You know, this is something that
<v Speaker 3>young twenty somethings can really identify with. You meet somebody,
<v Speaker 3>you have a one night love affair, yes, yes, and
<v Speaker 3>you fall in love for twenty four hours and it's great.
<v Speaker 5>You know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This song, if you remember, has a prominent part in
<v Speaker 3>the movie Real Genius. It's at the part where Chris
<v Speaker 3>talks Mitch into skipping out on studying and they're going
<v Speaker 3>to have a party. And they have a party in
<v Speaker 3>like the school auditorium and they set up those water
<v Speaker 3>slides and stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, where they do the laser that like paints
<v Speaker 1>the signs on it. Oh yeah, that's fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Valkimer goes up to the girls. He's like, don't eat that.
<v Speaker 3>This will cause you to have enormous breasts. Oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>I'm too late, crazy, think about it. Real genius came
<v Speaker 3>out the summer of eighty five and had the vision
<v Speaker 3>to have One Night Love Affair by Brian Adams and
<v Speaker 3>Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears.
<v Speaker 1>Pretty stellar. Two runs stright there for sure. Okay, so
<v Speaker 1>obviously we've got Brian singing on this one, playing rhythm
<v Speaker 1>guitar for most of the songs on the album. The
<v Speaker 1>drummer is Brian's standard drummer, Mickey Curry. Okay, right, But
<v Speaker 1>on this first one, the guy's name playing the drums
<v Speaker 1>is Pat Stewart. Now there's a story that goes along
<v Speaker 1>with how he's discovered, and it relates to the summer
<v Speaker 1>of sixty nine. But I can tell you that before
<v Speaker 1>Pat Stewart recorded on reckless. He had never been in
<v Speaker 1>a recording studio in his life, and now he is
<v Speaker 1>a part of I would say at least one, and
<v Speaker 1>we'll go through one by one and figure out how
<v Speaker 1>many of these bangers he becomes immortalized by.
<v Speaker 3>Oh cool, Okay, I love it, so I've got a
<v Speaker 3>great story. Keith Scott is Brian Adams guitarist, Yes, right,
<v Speaker 3>And when he and Jim Valance wrote the song the
<v Speaker 3>first time they played it for Keith. Guy's name is Keith.
<v Speaker 3>There's a line in the song that says, if the
<v Speaker 3>night was made for love, it ain't for keeps. But
<v Speaker 3>when they played it for Keith for the first time,
<v Speaker 3>they said, if the night were made for love, it
<v Speaker 3>ain't for Keith, which they thought was a cute, little
<v Speaker 3>funny thing to say. So they started doing it when
<v Speaker 3>they're on tour and looking at him like.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, that's funny, because talk about a one night love affair.
<v Speaker 1>The reason that Brian Adams and Keith Scott got together
<v Speaker 1>for the first time was because Brian knew they're both
<v Speaker 1>playing clubs for different bands in the same area of Vancouver.
<v Speaker 1>But he sees Keith walking along the street at some
<v Speaker 1>point and he thinks to himself, Man, every band that
<v Speaker 1>Keith is in always draws the crowd, and what he
<v Speaker 1>really meant was draws the ladies. Because Keith is a
<v Speaker 1>really good looking guy, and so it was like, if
<v Speaker 1>I can just maybe hit this guy up. He says.
<v Speaker 1>All the bands were really competitive, but I just thought,
<v Speaker 1>I'm just going to see if this guy can be friendly.
<v Speaker 1>And he said, you want to go get a cup
<v Speaker 1>of coffe. They hung out for a while, talk for
<v Speaker 1>a while, and then just within a short amount of time,
<v Speaker 1>he becomes Brian Adams go to guitarists.
<v Speaker 3>All right, d So this was the fifth single released
<v Speaker 3>September of nineteen eighty five. I gotta think that real
<v Speaker 3>genius may have given it a little bit of a
<v Speaker 3>rocket boost. Sure it hits number thirteen on the charts. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>all right, now, I just want to bring this up.
<v Speaker 3>I know I'm getting into my top ten a little
<v Speaker 3>bit early here, but this is a top thirteen that
<v Speaker 3>we've already discussed twice.
<v Speaker 1>Now, Okay, okay, this is eighty five.
<v Speaker 3>This is eighty five. This is November ninth of nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty five. This is when it peaks out. One night
<v Speaker 3>Love Affair hits number thirteen.
<v Speaker 1>One year after the album is released. Basically, yes, this
<v Speaker 1>is where we.
<v Speaker 3>Are, like almost exactly one year, right, Okay, so number
<v Speaker 3>twelve is never by Heart, So I mean that's a favor. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>Broken Wings by Mister Mister, Yeah, lay your hands on
<v Speaker 3>me Thompson Twins that one, remember we talked about that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Man.
<v Speaker 3>Be Near Me by ABC Grade eighty, Grade.
<v Speaker 1>Eighty, I remember that one on me?
<v Speaker 3>Oh sure, Separate Lives by Phil Collins. Yeah, Saving All
<v Speaker 3>My Love for You Whitney Houston her first top ten hit,
<v Speaker 3>We Built This City by Starship, You Belong to the
<v Speaker 3>City by Glenn Fry Head Over Heels by, Tears for Fears,
<v Speaker 3>part Time Lover by Stevie Wonder, and the Miami Vice
<v Speaker 3>theme at number one.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, we're swimming in this world right now.
<v Speaker 3>We are. We hit it with Beverly Hills Cops soundtrack,
<v Speaker 3>Miami Vice soundtrack and Tears Are Fears.
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<v Speaker 3>Thanks guys. Okay. Number two songs on the album We Go,
<v Speaker 3>She's only happy when She's dancing.
<v Speaker 1>You gotta love a song that's got some good handclapping
<v Speaker 1>in it.
<v Speaker 3>He doesn't stray very far from the formula. It's crunching guitars,
<v Speaker 3>it's driving drums, it's singable chorus, it's big arena rock.
<v Speaker 6>It's great.
<v Speaker 1>What I love about this song is number one. It
<v Speaker 1>kind of reminds me a little bit of a flash dance,
<v Speaker 1>like she's got her nine to five job, but then
<v Speaker 1>she goes out and really that's when she's happy. Beast
<v Speaker 1>is when she's dancing.
<v Speaker 3>As kind of flash dancy and the other thing.
<v Speaker 1>I hope I can blow your mind with this little bit, right.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So we talked about Brian Adams singing backup for Motley Crue.
<v Speaker 1>Do you know who's singing back up in this song? No?
<v Speaker 1>I don't, Okay, Well, we talked about him in one
<v Speaker 1>of our Stranger Things episodes. It's a really great episode.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, it makes me hot blooded. Lou Graham is
<v Speaker 1>singing backup vocals in this song.
<v Speaker 3>That's interesting because we've got a song coming up that
<v Speaker 3>was based a little bit on Jukebox Hero a little bit. Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna blow your mind with some history here.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So this whole album was written by Brian Adams
<v Speaker 3>and his songwriting partner Jim Vallance. Jim Vallance doesn't get
<v Speaker 3>enough credit.
<v Speaker 1>No, I mean he is. How did you put He's
<v Speaker 1>like the Ernie topin to Bryan Adams. Yeah, he's the Eltins. Yes, yes, yes, whatever,
<v Speaker 1>however you make that analogy, Yes.
<v Speaker 3>That's right. I mean he writes he helps Brian write
<v Speaker 3>these great songs.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I heard Brian talk about how he's a good songwriter.
<v Speaker 3>When he and Jim Valence hit their stride, they become
<v Speaker 3>great songwriters.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. And I mean they worked together, not only writing
<v Speaker 1>songs for Brian Adams, but they wrote songs together for
<v Speaker 1>other people too.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And I mean Jim Valence you're gonna see on the
<v Speaker 1>catalog of Bonnie Rait, Aerosmith, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, Roger
<v Speaker 1>Daltretina Turner, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Europe, Kiss Scorpions, and
<v Speaker 1>Murray throw back to our nineteen seventy eight episode and
<v Speaker 1>Joe Cocker.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, okay, hang on, I'm gonna blow your mind
<v Speaker 3>with something, Okay. Yeah, So part of that success you
<v Speaker 3>mentioned all those names that Jim Valance has helped write
<v Speaker 3>songs for. Yeah, that's the reason why he and Brian
<v Speaker 3>Adams broke up.
<v Speaker 1>It is the reason for the split. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Brian's like, dude, You're spending all your time writing songs
<v Speaker 3>for all these other people, what about me?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Well, obviously they did this whole album together, and
<v Speaker 1>then they do the next album together. But after that album,
<v Speaker 1>Brian was like, I just feel like with this relationship
<v Speaker 1>has run its course. Based on the fact that Jim
<v Speaker 1>Valance is going everywhere except to Brian's studio. He's like,
<v Speaker 1>I feel like this relationship has maybe run its course,
<v Speaker 1>and the album after this album doesn't perform as well.
<v Speaker 3>Has one great song on that.
<v Speaker 1>Album, and so he says, you know what, I would
<v Speaker 1>really love to record with Mutt Lang.
<v Speaker 3>Mutt Langa.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, He's thinking, Mutt Lang is the busiest music producer
<v Speaker 1>in the world right now, right, It's gonna take a
<v Speaker 1>while before I can get a hold of him. But again,
<v Speaker 1>he calls Bruce Allen, his manager. He tells him, he's like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I don't know if it's this album or
<v Speaker 1>what we need to do, but I would love to
<v Speaker 1>eventually try to get ahold of Mut Lang. And Bruce's like,
<v Speaker 1>why don't you just call him. He's like, you mean,
<v Speaker 1>just just right now and just call him. He's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>call him right now, picks up the phone, calls him,
<v Speaker 1>what says, I'm ready, let's go, and within a few
<v Speaker 1>days Brian is flying from Canada over to the UK
<v Speaker 1>to start recording Waking Up the Neighbors.
<v Speaker 3>That's fantastic, man.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, the only album that Brian Adams has that outsold
<v Speaker 1>this one.
<v Speaker 3>That's kind of mind blowing in itself. But let's hold
<v Speaker 3>that thought because I want to dive into that just
<v Speaker 3>a little bit deeper.
<v Speaker 1>Here in a minute.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I want to play just a couple of songs
<v Speaker 3>for you to see if you recognize these.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Okay? That song yes, Ragged all by Rasmith.
<v Speaker 3>Jim Balance wrote that nice. Okay, here's one for.
<v Speaker 4>You, that's heart.
<v Speaker 3>That song is called what About Love?
<v Speaker 1>There you go? What about love? All right?
<v Speaker 3>Jim Valance wrote that song Okay, see if you know
<v Speaker 3>this one?
<v Speaker 6>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>I feel like the name of that song is something
<v Speaker 1>like love Me when I'm Gone? Is that right?
<v Speaker 3>Songs called Don't Forget Me when I'm Gone?
<v Speaker 1>Ah, that's it?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Yeah, Glass Tiger another Canadian rock band. Oh yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 3>songs written by Jim Vallance. Now, I told you had
<v Speaker 3>a seventh grade girlfriend who moved away, right right, so
<v Speaker 3>we would still call each other. A Carian story, so
<v Speaker 3>we would call each other. She moved to Florida. What's
<v Speaker 3>her name, Victoria, Victoria. I haven't talked. It's nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 3>eighty seven. So, but she moved away. But we still
<v Speaker 3>call each other. And one of the things we talk
<v Speaker 3>about is songs we liked on the radio. I remember saying, Hey,
<v Speaker 3>I like this new song by George Michael and Brian
<v Speaker 3>Adams call Don't Forget Me when I'm Gone, and she's like, you, dummy,
<v Speaker 3>That songs by Glass Tiger, and so for thirty five
<v Speaker 3>years I've been like, yeah, dummy, you didn't even look
<v Speaker 3>that up. You didn't even know. You just guessed. Well
<v Speaker 3>I was half right. Okay, that's part of the song
<v Speaker 3>is not sung by George Michael. That's actually the singer
<v Speaker 3>of Glass Tiger.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>But the duet part of it, the guy with a
<v Speaker 3>raspy voice, Yeah, that is Brian Adams.
<v Speaker 1>Well there you go, in your face, Vicky, how do
<v Speaker 1>you like me?
<v Speaker 5>Now?
<v Speaker 3>That's right? I got one more for you to see
<v Speaker 3>if you know this one?
<v Speaker 7>Okay, last one?
<v Speaker 1>Did you just Dan huff me again?
<v Speaker 8>Yes?
<v Speaker 1>I did, helmet.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, Yes, that's great. You had no idea, you just have.
<v Speaker 1>Never heard that song before. But yes, I know Dan
<v Speaker 1>Huff's voice at this point in our relationship. Thanks to you, sir, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>thank you.
<v Speaker 3>That song is called I'll Be There when It's Over
<v Speaker 3>by the group Giant, sung by our man Dan Huff.
<v Speaker 3>Jim Balance wrote that song guys.
<v Speaker 1>By the way back to the Patreon episodes. If you
<v Speaker 1>want the I'll See You in My Dreams Patreon episode,
<v Speaker 1>we Jason does a love affair with Dan Huff on
<v Speaker 1>that one.
<v Speaker 3>It's such a great song. Dan Huff, lead singer Giant,
<v Speaker 3>had that one magical moment where he sang the song
<v Speaker 3>I'll see you in my dreams. All Right, I don't
<v Speaker 3>want to brain dump on you here, but I'm gonna
<v Speaker 3>throw one more thing at you.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Jim Balance was in a rock band called Sunshine that
<v Speaker 3>morphed into a different band called Prism. Right, yeah, you
<v Speaker 3>may be more familiar with Prism.
<v Speaker 1>Yes.
<v Speaker 3>The leader and trumpet player of Prism was Bruce Fairbairn.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, yeah, big producer. I mean he's involved in
<v Speaker 1>all of those albums that we were talking about earlier
<v Speaker 1>with bon Jovi, and.
<v Speaker 3>He produced Slippery One Way.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>He produced New Jersey Pump by Aersmith, Permanent Vacation the
<v Speaker 3>Razor's Edge by ACDC Get a Grip, which we've done
<v Speaker 3>track by track on Yeah, they were in the same
<v Speaker 3>band together.
<v Speaker 1>It's fantastic. All right. We done with this one, Okay
<v Speaker 1>now before we play track number three, Yes, I just
<v Speaker 1>want you to think about the song Don't Fear the
<v Speaker 1>Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. Okay, you listen to it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, let's play it.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's listen to it. Okay, that's enough of that.
<v Speaker 1>I want to distract you with that, but just keep
<v Speaker 1>that in mind. But also I just want you to
<v Speaker 1>just listen on this opening guitar rift for the perfect
<v Speaker 1>use of feedback as it screams out in the opening guitar.
<v Speaker 8>Riffs, if you ever found out about.
<v Speaker 1>You, I am spiking the freaking football. This is the
<v Speaker 1>best song on the album, best song on all of
<v Speaker 1>Brian adams discography. This is a killer, iconic song.
<v Speaker 3>I agree. This is a banger of bangers from this album.
<v Speaker 3>This song, of course, is run to You. This was
<v Speaker 3>the lead single released October eighteenth, nineteen eighty four. It
<v Speaker 3>only reached number six.
<v Speaker 1>I want you to tell me before I start telling
<v Speaker 1>the story. When I'm done, you better be ready with
<v Speaker 1>your top ten or whatever it is that we've got
<v Speaker 1>for this one. But before we do that, I said,
<v Speaker 1>think about Blue Oyster Cult. Right, yeah, okay, So did
<v Speaker 1>he steal this riff from Blue Oyster Cult. No, he didn't,
<v Speaker 1>it's not the same riff. But what he did do
<v Speaker 1>was write this song for Blue Oyster Cult and they
<v Speaker 1>said no.
<v Speaker 5>They said no, thank goodness, right, thank goodness, And I
<v Speaker 5>think thirty eight Special turned it down as well.
<v Speaker 3>They did.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. No, They had gotten a call I think it
<v Speaker 1>was from Bruce Fairburn actually had gotten a call said hey,
<v Speaker 1>Blue Oyster Cult is looking for some music. Do you
<v Speaker 1>guys have anything? He and Jim wrote this song together
<v Speaker 1>and basically they made a bad demo of it. They
<v Speaker 1>didn't deliberately make a bad demo it, but he sent
<v Speaker 1>it to him and they said, nah, we're good. You know,
<v Speaker 1>we're done. So this is the last song that got
<v Speaker 1>added to this album. They had a truckload of stuff.
<v Speaker 1>But then the producer on this, Bob clear Mountain, same
<v Speaker 1>guy who produced Cuts Like a Knife and his other
<v Speaker 1>albums before this, right, says we need another song. Do
<v Speaker 1>you have anything like leftover? And Brian's like, well, I
<v Speaker 1>mean I got this song that I wrote for the
<v Speaker 1>Blue Oyster Cult, but it just you know, they turned
<v Speaker 1>it down.
<v Speaker 3>I don't like it.
<v Speaker 1>I don't really know if it's something for us. He's like, well, heck,
<v Speaker 1>let's just give it a try. And so he, you know,
<v Speaker 1>sits down with the band. They go over the music
<v Speaker 1>and they just sit down and they just play it.
<v Speaker 1>He gets done with his part, he looks in the
<v Speaker 1>sound booth and Bob clear Mountain and the guy who's
<v Speaker 1>running the tapes are both standing up. He's like, what's wrong,
<v Speaker 1>and they're like, come in here. He's like, oh no,
<v Speaker 1>and he walks in the sound booth and they push
<v Speaker 1>play for him and he's like, wow, this sounded a
<v Speaker 1>lot better than I remember it. Wow, just something happened.
<v Speaker 1>They captured that lightning in a bottle. That spark happened,
<v Speaker 1>and they just from a bad demo of a mediocre
<v Speaker 1>song made something that is or shattering.
<v Speaker 3>Now, didn't you tell me that thirty eight special? Later
<v Speaker 3>listened to it and like, well, that song's better than
<v Speaker 3>we thought it was. Wow.
<v Speaker 1>I think everybody thought that. Yeah, that's yeah, everybody thought that.
<v Speaker 3>So this is a cheating classic.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, I would.
<v Speaker 3>Call this the sequel to One Night Love Affair.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's great. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, but this, I mean,
<v Speaker 1>it's a better sequel. You know, this is the Empire
<v Speaker 1>strikes back if you're right, because I mean, just the
<v Speaker 1>you can feel the lust and the passion and the
<v Speaker 1>the taboo of the relationship it is. It's intense ration.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, he's got a girl.
<v Speaker 1>She's decent, she's just cold.
<v Speaker 3>Right, but it's so damn easy making love to this
<v Speaker 3>other girl.
<v Speaker 1>Won't hurt her if she doesn't know.
<v Speaker 6>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, listen to this top five that that outranked Run
<v Speaker 3>to You.
<v Speaker 1>This better be freaking fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Well, four, A, five, four or five are pretty
<v Speaker 3>pretty freaking good. Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Number five Easy Lover by Philip Bailey and Phil.
<v Speaker 1>Collins not better than this song.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, still a really classic, solid song. Maybe Number four
<v Speaker 3>I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner Ouche.
<v Speaker 1>Wow Oka sings back up and then and then keeps
<v Speaker 1>him out of the out of the higher ranking. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>keep going.
<v Speaker 3>I still think Run to You is better than both
<v Speaker 3>of those songs.
<v Speaker 1>Yes.
<v Speaker 3>Number three You're the Inspiration by Chicago a makeout classic.
<v Speaker 1>For me, it is a makeout class and it is
<v Speaker 1>really really good. I still don't think it's better than this.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right? Number two All I Need by Jack Wagner,
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, the song that inspired Nicky six to
<v Speaker 3>write the Motley Cruz song You're All I Need?
<v Speaker 1>Oh gosh?
<v Speaker 3>Remember?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, Yeah, he wanted to go break his legs,
<v Speaker 1>that's right, and then he accidentally broke his legs on
<v Speaker 1>his own and then the girlfriend was like, what did
<v Speaker 1>you do?
<v Speaker 3>You don't know that story. Go listen to the Motley
<v Speaker 3>Crue Girls Girls Girls track by track we.
<v Speaker 1>Did Jack Wagner soap opera extraordinaire.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, and apparently fuller around her with Nicky Six's girl. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and number one like a version of my Madonna.
<v Speaker 1>Well, that's it. That's a little hard.
<v Speaker 3>I was a cultural shift. Absolutely, Run to You is
<v Speaker 3>better than all these songs, although they're pretty pretty salty.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, fantastic song.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Now, then let's talk about the video for a second. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>So I found it in interesting. Steve barn is a
<v Speaker 3>guy that we talked about. He did Billy Jean, he
<v Speaker 3>did a million other videos. Yeah, he called this video
<v Speaker 3>one of his worst, maybe his worst.
<v Speaker 1>I agree with him, Okay, I mean, you've you've got
<v Speaker 1>this relationship and passion and taboo stuff that's all in
<v Speaker 1>play here and there's no girl, right it is.
<v Speaker 3>Well, she's there, but there's no no The I.
<v Speaker 1>Run to you is I'm running to my guitar. Really,
<v Speaker 1>you're making love to her guitar? I don't think so, sir.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, there was such an opportunity that was missed
<v Speaker 1>with this video. I agree with the director bailed attempt.
<v Speaker 3>Well, here's the thing. So they spent all the budget
<v Speaker 3>of the video on this fake tree that they wanted
<v Speaker 3>to get stressed snow reel. I don't know if the
<v Speaker 3>snows I'm not, but the fake tree got struck by lightning.
<v Speaker 3>They said it burned up in less than a minute,
<v Speaker 3>and they were looking at the tree like, well, there
<v Speaker 3>goes the budget for the video. I hope that that
<v Speaker 3>turns out. Well, yeah, it turns out. Even though Steve
<v Speaker 3>Barron didn't like it, Brian Adams thought the video was terrible.
<v Speaker 3>This video was nominated by MTV in five categories, five
<v Speaker 3>including Best Special Effects and Best Direction.
<v Speaker 1>Did it win?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 3>Just nominating? Yeah, Brian Adams in the beginning. Mm hmm,
<v Speaker 3>this is his quote. I didn't really think that music
<v Speaker 3>videos mattered. I didn't care I should have.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I mean Steve Baron we've talked about before, because,
<v Speaker 1>like you said, he directed Billy Jean. He also directed
<v Speaker 1>Take on Me by Aha, which we've covered in our
<v Speaker 1>Patreon episodes. There's too many names to mention on videos
<v Speaker 1>that he's made. He's just one of those guys. But
<v Speaker 1>one of the biggest is Money for Nothing by Dire Straits.
<v Speaker 1>I mean that's an icon.
<v Speaker 3>Well sure, yeah, Okay, like we said, this was the
<v Speaker 3>lead single in this video. You have the English actress
<v Speaker 3>Lyzette Anthony.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Anthony is in five videos from Reckless.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Now, she had some success as a sitcom actress, ended
<v Speaker 3>up homeless. What her quote was that she had some
<v Speaker 3>really expensive husbands. Okay, so I think she's got back
<v Speaker 3>on her feet since then.
<v Speaker 1>But do you know what the movie she was a
<v Speaker 1>part of that is an icon from the eighties? No,
<v Speaker 1>what nineteen eighty three? My hint is that in Fall.
<v Speaker 1>It's a fantasy movie that involves something like a throwing
<v Speaker 1>star that appears in Ready player one.
<v Speaker 3>Was she and Kroll.
<v Speaker 1>She was Princess Lisa in the nineteen eighty three epic Kroll.
<v Speaker 3>My Mind is blown right way to go?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, awesome, Okay, and then she's homeless. What Yeah, expensive
<v Speaker 1>husbands will do that to you.
<v Speaker 3>I guess good things she had those BEAUTI for Blue
<v Speaker 3>Eyes to fall back on. Yeah, run to you. Epic
<v Speaker 3>banger of bangers from this album that's packed full of bangers.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, biggest hit out of the ones we've heard so
<v Speaker 1>far in my opinion, biggest one on the whole album.
<v Speaker 3>And Blue Oyster Colt was too good for it special.
<v Speaker 1>Guess Sorry guys. Okay, that takes us to track number four,
<v Speaker 1>Another amazing song. Aeah right, all right, here we go.
<v Speaker 1>This is heaven, all right. Couples move to the center
<v Speaker 1>of the floor. That's my line.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I agree with you. This song feels like sweaty
<v Speaker 3>school dances and higgies.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Well, this song feels like Faithfully by Journey.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so tell me about that.
<v Speaker 1>So Brian Adams opened like over one hundred shows I
<v Speaker 1>think for Journey. He was on tour with them during
<v Speaker 1>their Frontiers tour. And you know, guys, go check out
<v Speaker 1>our episode on Frontiers. We compared it to Synchronicity, both
<v Speaker 1>big hits from eighty three, right right, yeh, But I
<v Speaker 1>mean they're on tour with them and they hear Faithfully.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you remember the story on Faithfully is like
<v Speaker 1>Neil Showan was like, this is hippie you know, lovey
<v Speaker 1>dovey natt. I don't And then they played it. You know,
<v Speaker 1>this is Jonathan Kine and Steve Perry's like, baby.
<v Speaker 3>Jonathan Kate said he downloaded that song directly from God Almighty.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and so and then they play it and first night,
<v Speaker 1>first playing the song, and the crowd goes nuts, and
<v Speaker 1>Neil Show's like, Okay, I was wrong, yeah right. And
<v Speaker 1>but in part of that process, Jim Valance and and
<v Speaker 1>Brian Adams are inspired to write this song called Heaven.
<v Speaker 3>How could you not be impacted watching people sway with
<v Speaker 3>the lighters out in Steve Perry's jestic voice and moving
<v Speaker 3>the crowd. Yeah, absolutely, So they needed a song like this,
<v Speaker 3>and Brian Adams said, yeah, let's do just like Faithfully.
<v Speaker 3>Accept This song barely made the.
<v Speaker 1>Album, barely made it on Directless, barely made it on Direckless.
<v Speaker 1>Well here we may blow your mind with this one listener.
<v Speaker 1>This is the second album that this song appears on.
<v Speaker 3>I know, right. This was on the soundtrack for a
<v Speaker 3>huge hit movie in nineteen eighty three. That movie is
<v Speaker 3>called A Night in Heaven.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, Knight, and.
<v Speaker 3>You didn't see that movie starring Christopher Adkins, the other
<v Speaker 3>guy in the Blue Lagoon, whereas a male.
<v Speaker 1>Stripper, did not go see that movie. I can't tell
<v Speaker 1>you though it was directed by John g Advilson. Though
<v Speaker 1>same guy did Rocky, same guy who did Karate Kid.
<v Speaker 1>You remember we just talked about karate Kid and I
<v Speaker 1>told you I was like, I looked at his IMDb
<v Speaker 1>and basically, he's like a hit, a home run or strikeout,
<v Speaker 1>and A Night in Heaven is a strikeout.
<v Speaker 3>Luckily he had Karate Kid to follow it up for that.
<v Speaker 1>Yep.
<v Speaker 3>So Heaven was on the soundtrack to that movie. Yep,
<v Speaker 3>that was a nineteen eighty three movie. This song hits
<v Speaker 3>number one June twenty second, nineteen eighty five, almost a
<v Speaker 3>year and a half after that movie comes out. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>all right, I've got something special for you. Okay, I'm
<v Speaker 3>gonna give you a top five. This is the week
<v Speaker 3>that Heaven Hits Number one June twenty second, nineteen eighty five. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>this top five, you have four number one hits and
<v Speaker 3>one number two hit.
<v Speaker 1>Like four songs that are tied for number one.
<v Speaker 3>No, no, no, four songs that eventually hold the number
<v Speaker 3>one spot. Oh okay, this is an incredible top five.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So number five is a View to a Kill by
<v Speaker 3>Duran Duran.
<v Speaker 1>Huge, right? Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Number four is Raspberry Beret by Prince Iconic song is
<v Speaker 3>that one on cherry Men? That one's on around the
<v Speaker 3>World Noon of a Day? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, gotcha? Yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 3>Number three is Everybody Wants to Rule the World by
<v Speaker 3>Tears for Fears.
<v Speaker 1>Great song, just covered it. I know it hits number one.
<v Speaker 3>Right Sisudio by Phil Collins, huge massive song for eighty five.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah you know what that means, by the way, Sisudio
<v Speaker 1>Susiu Studio. Yeah, I do you do? Yeah? Okay, Well
<v Speaker 1>we'll talk about it when we do Phil Collins episode.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, okay, So what song of those did not hold
<v Speaker 3>the number one spot on the Hot one hundred?
<v Speaker 1>Uh jeez, I don't know, uh, Sisudio, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Raspberry Beret tops out at number two. Really yep.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>In fact, Heaven knocked Everybody wants to Rule the World
<v Speaker 3>out of the number one spot. Nice, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>This video also stars the Croll princess lize In.
<v Speaker 1>So I think, if I'm remembering right, this is the
<v Speaker 1>video that's kind of the follow up to the Summer
<v Speaker 1>of sixty nine video, because she in that video plays
<v Speaker 1>the girl that he meets in the drive in movie. Right,
<v Speaker 1>that's right. And then it's it's very you know, like
<v Speaker 1>glory days, like it's this is what happened in the past.
<v Speaker 1>But the video ends with her like looking at his
<v Speaker 1>band playing in a barn and as they drive by,
<v Speaker 1>and she's with her new boyfriend, and the new boyfriend's like,
<v Speaker 1>what is this? Who is that? Who are you looking at?
<v Speaker 1>And it's just dumb, It's ridiculous.
<v Speaker 3>That's Summer sixty nine, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And so I think this video for Heaven starts off
<v Speaker 1>like they're pulled over to the side of the road
<v Speaker 1>and the boyfriend is getting a dui ticket.
<v Speaker 3>That's it, he's having to walk.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so this is like part two of that story.
<v Speaker 1>And she's just over there, you know, rolling her eyes,
<v Speaker 1>and finally she looks across the street and she sees
<v Speaker 1>on the on the Marquee tonight Brian Adams, and so
<v Speaker 1>she goes and sneaks into the concert to see her
<v Speaker 1>old flame.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, except there's two videos really okay, right, So
<v Speaker 3>I watched them both in preparation for this. So the
<v Speaker 3>one that I remembered was Brian Adams playing a concert
<v Speaker 3>to a bunch of TVs. Okay, it's like he's in
<v Speaker 3>a dream and there's nobody there and so there's just televisions.
<v Speaker 3>It's really weird. Okay, I remember it, and I remember
<v Speaker 3>liking the video. But then I saw the other video
<v Speaker 3>where it's actually when you're talking about where she sneaks in,
<v Speaker 3>he's playing at a concert. Their eyes meet and all
<v Speaker 3>this stuff, right, and.
<v Speaker 1>Well he goes chasing after her, like he sees her
<v Speaker 1>in the crowd, and he as soon as the set
<v Speaker 1>is over, like he run. He grabs his iconic black
<v Speaker 1>leather jacket, throws it on, and the doors are.
<v Speaker 3>Locked, right, and it's like snowing really bad.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so that video I thought was a lot better.
<v Speaker 3>Big Song Summer of nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So we mentioned that this is inspired by Faithfully, Right, Yes, okay,
<v Speaker 1>So there's another reason that this song sounds very much
<v Speaker 1>like that song. So I mentioned that Pat Stewart was
<v Speaker 1>a guy that they picked up, drummer that had never
<v Speaker 1>been in a studio before, and he's on three of
<v Speaker 1>the songs on this album. Right, And their standard guy
<v Speaker 1>on this is Mickey Curry. But they're in the middle
<v Speaker 1>of recording this song and he's like, guys, I gotta go,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm like what what what? He's like, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 1>I got a date with Hall and Oates. So he
<v Speaker 1>goes and goes to play with hallan Oates and they're like, well, crap,
<v Speaker 1>who do we get to play the drums?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>You know who?
<v Speaker 3>They get Steve Smith.
<v Speaker 1>Steve Smith, the drummer for Journey.
<v Speaker 3>If you wanted to sound like Faithfully, who are you
<v Speaker 3>gonna call?
<v Speaker 1>Call Steve Smith.
<v Speaker 7>It sounds like a dream.
<v Speaker 3>I told you. I sent you a Texas week I
<v Speaker 3>said if def Leppard and Journey had a baby, it
<v Speaker 3>would be Brian Adams.
<v Speaker 1>That's that's fair. That's a fair assessment. I am loving
<v Speaker 1>this album so far. Let's get on. This is the
<v Speaker 1>lab song on side one. This song is called Somebody man,
<v Speaker 1>you want to end side one with another tent pole
<v Speaker 1>banger after playing the slow dance song, This is the
<v Speaker 1>Way to Go.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great song, great song.
<v Speaker 1>And it says something that everybody believes. I need somebody.
<v Speaker 1>Everybody needs somebody looking between the fire and the flame.
<v Speaker 1>Just give me that perfect person.
<v Speaker 3>I love the genesis of this song.
<v Speaker 1>Tell me.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. So Jim Balance, we said, was the drummer for
<v Speaker 3>Prism right and he would play drums.
<v Speaker 1>He plays percussion on this, does he Yeah, this is
<v Speaker 1>one of the few that he gets a personnel credit for.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Nice, Okay, still got Mickey Curry. But on drums, Jim
<v Speaker 1>Balance is doing percussion, which I'm tempted to think means
<v Speaker 1>the tambourine.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, Jim grabbing tambourine real quick. But he said, you
<v Speaker 3>know he would back in the early days when they
<v Speaker 3>were playing clubs and he's hammering away and you get
<v Speaker 3>a unique perspective from behind the drum kit. He said,
<v Speaker 3>we saw the same people every night out there drinking
<v Speaker 3>and dancing and just looking for somebody to go home with.
<v Speaker 3>And he's like it was pathetic. Yeah, And he's like,
<v Speaker 3>and the winners are losers. You see it every night.
<v Speaker 3>How about that?
<v Speaker 1>It's awesome.
<v Speaker 3>I like this. I saw a review by a guy
<v Speaker 3>named Stuart Mason basically said, reckless rock Anthem is run
<v Speaker 3>to you, it's sensitive, power ballad as Heaven, and it's
<v Speaker 3>straight ahead pop song.
<v Speaker 1>Is somebody fantastic Ladies and gentlemen listeners, you got to
<v Speaker 1>know that when we have an episode coming up. Jason
<v Speaker 1>and I are perpetually texting each other little video clips
<v Speaker 1>and little interview articles and stuff like that. And earlier
<v Speaker 1>this week, Jason texted me and it was a snapshot
<v Speaker 1>of the YouTube video and he says to me, he goes,
<v Speaker 1>do you know which of the songs on this album
<v Speaker 1>talks about Madonna? And I'm thinking to myself, they wrote
<v Speaker 1>this in eighty three. I mean was she I mean
<v Speaker 1>she was just barely you know, hitting the radar at
<v Speaker 1>that point. They put her in a song and then
<v Speaker 1>I look at the picture. I said, it's the Madonna dude,
<v Speaker 1>not Madonna like? And then you remember what your response was, No,
<v Speaker 1>this song popped out at what number eleven? Is that right?
<v Speaker 3>Number eleven?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? And do you know who two of the songs
<v Speaker 1>were they kept? And I said, the mother of Jesus. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>that's right, that's right, it's great, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>I gotta run through this top eleven with you real quick,
<v Speaker 3>so somebody pops out at number eleven, like we texted, Madonna,
<v Speaker 3>the Madonna.
<v Speaker 1>Not the Madonna Madonna, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Not the Madonna. Madonna beats him out on two songs.
<v Speaker 3>But my claim is that this may be one of
<v Speaker 3>the biggest robberies that it did not get into the
<v Speaker 3>top ten. This is a great song from nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's better than all ten of these songs. Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>too late for Goodbyes by Julian Lennon, Rhythm of the
<v Speaker 3>Night by El Dubarge which we like, but still come on, really,
<v Speaker 3>I'm on Fire by Bruce Springsteen. It's a good song,
<v Speaker 3>but no, this is night Shift by the Commodores.
<v Speaker 1>Well, that one was really big, that was really, really
<v Speaker 1>very popular back then. That's a good song, but I
<v Speaker 1>still don't think it keeps this one out. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>these are good songs.
<v Speaker 3>Can't fight This Feeling by ospeed.
<v Speaker 1>Wagon that's huge. I mean, you Gotta You Gotta That
<v Speaker 1>is a fair that is a fair. Beat on this one.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, Love a Girl by Tina Marie go back to
<v Speaker 3>our Top Gun soundtrack episode.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but it doesn't beat the song Crazy for You.
<v Speaker 3>By Madonna, Sure, Material Girl by Madonna.
<v Speaker 1>Yes We Are the World Well yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And One More Night by Phil Collins.
<v Speaker 1>Stupid Phil Collins.
<v Speaker 3>These are all great songs, but better than this one.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a hard thing. I don't think that it
<v Speaker 1>falls that way nowadays.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, the line in the song goes, I
<v Speaker 3>thought I saw the Madonna, Yeah, the material Girl.
<v Speaker 1>I think he would have just said I thought I
<v Speaker 1>saw Madonna if he was actually talking about the virgin. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I mean like a virgin. Sorry, Okay, let me ask
<v Speaker 1>you this. Did you ever like LimeWire or Napster or
<v Speaker 1>anything like that?
<v Speaker 3>Yes? I did. I LimeWire the holy crap out of everything.
<v Speaker 1>You're lucky you didn't get caught, I know.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, tell me the story on this.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. So this song was one of twenty four songs,
<v Speaker 1>just twenty four. Like, think of all of the files
<v Speaker 1>that you've dear listener, think about all of the songs
<v Speaker 1>that you ripped off a CD and shared with your friends. Right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they file a lawsuit on twenty four songs. This is
<v Speaker 1>the very first file sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by
<v Speaker 1>a major record label. They try it to a jury.
<v Speaker 1>Jamie Thomas, she is a single mother of four children.
<v Speaker 1>She gets found liable in the two thousand and seven
<v Speaker 1>trial for downloading these twenty four songs from Kazah, and
<v Speaker 1>she gets ordered to pay two hundred and twenty two
<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars in damages. That comes out to about nine
<v Speaker 1>two hundred and fifty dollars a song. They retry the case.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know who appealed and why they had to
<v Speaker 1>retry the case, but the case gets retried two years later.
<v Speaker 1>This time the jury finds still that she's liable, but
<v Speaker 1>this time awards one point nine two million dollars. That's
<v Speaker 1>eighty thousand dollars per song in damages.
<v Speaker 6>What.
<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure that Ms Thomas probably just declared bankruptcy
<v Speaker 1>because I don't know how you're gonna get that much
<v Speaker 1>money out of a single mother of four. But there
<v Speaker 1>you go.
<v Speaker 3>That is ridiculous, crazy eighty thousand dollars a.
<v Speaker 1>Song a song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, those were different times. Absolutely, Okay, hit stop on
<v Speaker 3>your tape player, kick it out, flip it over for
<v Speaker 3>side two, and we start off with Summer of sixty nine.
<v Speaker 6>I kind of first resisting out the five and.
<v Speaker 8>Played it's in the fingus play was a Summer of sixteen.
<v Speaker 3>Of course, this is an amazing song. I love this.
<v Speaker 1>This is this song for me was Brian Adams in
<v Speaker 1>the eighties, like this is I mean, I love all
<v Speaker 1>of the songs on this one. But if you were asking,
<v Speaker 1>you know, ten year old, the what Brian Adams song
<v Speaker 1>first comes to your mind, It's gonna be somewhere sixty nine.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So he had the demo for this one, gets the
<v Speaker 1>band together, they record, put it all down, and Brian's
<v Speaker 1>words were, I felt like we didn't improve upon the demo.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, I know this is a good song, but
<v Speaker 1>if you can't make something better than the demo was,
<v Speaker 1>you didn't do it right. And so they do it again,
<v Speaker 1>they re record it, do it all over again, and
<v Speaker 1>again he's like, yeah, there's just there's something missing, like
<v Speaker 1>the drums are just not quite right. But at this point,
<v Speaker 1>like session's over, guys have all gone home. He's in Vancouver,
<v Speaker 1>it's nighttime and he's like, I guess I'm gonna go
<v Speaker 1>just walk around and so he happens to walk into
<v Speaker 1>this club where there is a ska band playing ska
<v Speaker 1>band named Rubber Biscuit okay, and he's watching him play
<v Speaker 1>and he's like, dang, this drummer is killing it. And
<v Speaker 1>so in between sets he goes up to the drummer.
<v Speaker 1>He's like, hey, my name's Brian. Guy's like, my name's Pat.
<v Speaker 1>He said, what are you doing tomorrow? And Guy's like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know why. He says, You're gonna come to
<v Speaker 1>the studio. Maybe just sit in see how it goes. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Guy's like, okay, never been in a studio in his life.
<v Speaker 1>Pat Stewart walks in. Whoa first song that he plays,
<v Speaker 1>He's like, can will you just play this? I mean?
<v Speaker 1>And they when they record, they record as the whole band, right,
<v Speaker 1>so you hear that first whack yeah, and then there's
<v Speaker 1>no drums for a while. But he said, Pat just
<v Speaker 1>brought the energy. The band fed off the energy, and
<v Speaker 1>that's how this song became what it is.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, Poor Mickey Curry. Can go make love to Hall
<v Speaker 3>of Notes.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, go hang out with John Oates, buddy. Now, what's
<v Speaker 1>crazy is? I mean? This is just a guy in
<v Speaker 1>a ska band in the clubs of Vancouver, right, he's
<v Speaker 1>just a kid.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>And of course this launches his career. He goes on
<v Speaker 1>to play a bunch of different things. But the thing
<v Speaker 1>that I thought was the most interesting is did you
<v Speaker 1>ever want the Kids in the Hall on HBO?
<v Speaker 3>I'm familiar with it.
<v Speaker 1>Well, they would do things where they had band session
<v Speaker 1>stuff and songs that they would do. He was the
<v Speaker 1>drummer for all of the kids in the Hall stuff,
<v Speaker 1>including like Brain Candy. Like there's a big band in
<v Speaker 1>Brain Candy. And I was just like, ah, that's too cool.
<v Speaker 1>And then I thought, crap, it's been a long time
<v Speaker 1>since I've seen Brain Candy. I really need to go
<v Speaker 1>watch that again.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, that's a great story. Okay, I've got one for
<v Speaker 3>you on the origin of this story.
<v Speaker 1>Okakay.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I've read some stuff that this was kind
<v Speaker 3>of inspired by Bob seekers Night Moves.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I saw that it was inspired by the movie The
<v Speaker 3>Summer of forty two.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, okay, if you.
<v Speaker 3>Remember that kind of an older woman, kind of a spring,
<v Speaker 3>you know, kind of a romance type of thing. Sure,
<v Speaker 3>Jackson Brown's running on empty. Yeah, But basically it's a
<v Speaker 3>song about your childhood memories, right and kind of as
<v Speaker 3>you're growing into a man, you know.
<v Speaker 6>Right.
<v Speaker 3>So it started off with a conversation between Brian Adams
<v Speaker 3>and Jim Valence and they were both talking about their
<v Speaker 3>childhood school days.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>They discussed the fact that John Lennon wrote the song
<v Speaker 3>Abberry Fields Forever about his childhood school days. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 3>Paul McCartney wrote the song Penny Lane about his school.
<v Speaker 1>Days streets they grew up on. Yeah, and they were like.
<v Speaker 3>Man, those are both great songs. We need to do
<v Speaker 3>this right, and this is the product of that conversation.
<v Speaker 1>Well, here's my concern. Okay. Well, we mentioned that Brian
<v Speaker 1>Adams was born in November of fifty nine, Yes, which
<v Speaker 1>means in the summer of sixty nine he was nine
<v Speaker 1>years old.
<v Speaker 3>That's right.
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I mean, he might have been an early player,
<v Speaker 1>but I really find it hard to believe that he
<v Speaker 1>was having a moment on the front porch laston Forever
<v Speaker 1>at Okay.
<v Speaker 3>So he did. I did see him in concert, okay.
<v Speaker 3>I saw him open for def Leppard. Yeah, and he said, guys,
<v Speaker 3>this song is not about the summer of nineteen sixty nine.
<v Speaker 3>And everybody's like, ooh, He's like, yep, so this is
<v Speaker 3>about sexual innuendo. It's about your first encounter, real encounter
<v Speaker 3>with the opposite sex.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't. I think he's playing that up a
<v Speaker 1>little bit now. Sure. The co writer Jim Balance, he
<v Speaker 1>was born in fifty two.
<v Speaker 3>He was seventeen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so that makes a little bit more sense for
<v Speaker 1>some of the lyrics that we're getting. But to be
<v Speaker 1>honest in researching, you know when Brian Adams how old
<v Speaker 1>he was when he bought his first guitar from a
<v Speaker 1>five and dime No. Ten summer of seventy just doesn't
<v Speaker 1>rhyme as well.
<v Speaker 3>You know when you talk about songs about your first
<v Speaker 3>sexual encounter. I've got a quote for you from the
<v Speaker 3>wonderful Barbara Bush about a certain other sticky situation in
<v Speaker 3>the nineties. She said, a man may forget where he
<v Speaker 3>perks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness. Wow, all right, let's keep it PG. Thirteen. Buddy,
<v Speaker 1>there you go.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So in the song you have the lyrics Jimmy
<v Speaker 3>quit and Jody got married. Jim Valence wanted to change
<v Speaker 3>that too, would he quit and Gordy got married? Because
<v Speaker 3>that actually happened when he was in Prism and playing well.
<v Speaker 3>They kept it as Jimmy because he was an early
<v Speaker 3>drummer for Brian Adams, and then Jody was a sound
<v Speaker 3>manager that did get married during.
<v Speaker 1>The recording of Reckless Nice.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, this song pops out at number five
<v Speaker 3>June seventeenth, nineteen eighty five. Quickly number four We Don't
<v Speaker 3>Need Another Hero by Tina Turner, who we're going to
<v Speaker 3>talk about here in.
<v Speaker 1>Just a minute, Yeah, in just a second.
<v Speaker 3>Number three, Freeway of Love by Aretha Franklin to Saint
<v Speaker 3>Emil's Fire and one Power of Love. You mentioned it
<v Speaker 3>the theme song two Back.
<v Speaker 1>To the Future. Man, I love the Summer of eighty five?
<v Speaker 1>So what did to write a song about that?
<v Speaker 3>Right?
<v Speaker 5>Right?
<v Speaker 3>This is so good?
<v Speaker 1>Love it?
<v Speaker 3>Anything else on this one? When did you get your
<v Speaker 3>first guitar?
<v Speaker 1>D Yeah? So, I mean there were guitars in my house.
<v Speaker 1>My dad played, and so there were things just around.
<v Speaker 1>But I was thirteen when I ended up picking it up.
<v Speaker 1>It was and I'm not kidding, the Summer of eighty nine.
<v Speaker 1>Love it, Yeah, love it?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, here you go. Some of the lyrics are derived
<v Speaker 3>from Juwbox hero bought a beat up six string thunder
<v Speaker 3>Road where Bruce Springsteen talks about his front porch and
<v Speaker 3>I want to hold your hand When you hold my hand.
<v Speaker 3>I knew it was now or Never. It's kind of
<v Speaker 3>a collaboration of all these great songs.
<v Speaker 1>It's fantastic, great conversation.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, just a little tidbit, this song was
<v Speaker 3>originally called Best Days of My Life.
<v Speaker 1>They went with the right title. I agree, yep, okay.
<v Speaker 1>Brings us to our next song.
<v Speaker 3>Next song on the album's called Kids Want to Rock.
<v Speaker 1>Welcome Kids for so that This is the song that
<v Speaker 1>after Bruce Allen said where's the rock? This is the
<v Speaker 1>one they wrote.
<v Speaker 3>They went back and wrote this song.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Do you know where the title this song comes from?
<v Speaker 3>So they went back the name. They knew they wanted
<v Speaker 3>to write a rock song. They wanted to edge it
<v Speaker 3>up a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So Brian Adams and Jim Balance had gone to a Thomas.
<v Speaker 1>Dolby concert okay, like science yeah, okay, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And he was doing the keyboard thing and Jim Balance
<v Speaker 3>turned to Brian Adams and is like, these kids are
<v Speaker 3>not into this keyboard. These kids want to rock.
<v Speaker 1>Kids won a raw and.
<v Speaker 3>That stuck in Brian AIM's head, and that's where they
<v Speaker 3>came with a title for this song. But you mentioned
<v Speaker 3>they flew back. They added this one in late This
<v Speaker 3>is the one of the last ones that they added
<v Speaker 3>in August before the album was released. They re recorded
<v Speaker 3>One Night Love Affair in summer of sixty nine to
<v Speaker 3>make those rockier, and you get an album that Karg
<v Speaker 3>Magazine praised. Krag Magazine is a metal magazine. Yeah, is
<v Speaker 3>one of the best rock albums.
<v Speaker 1>Of eighty five. It's a banger. So early part of
<v Speaker 1>this song, right, this is the first lyrics, right says
<v Speaker 1>turned on the radio sounded like a disco must have
<v Speaker 1>turned the dial for a couple of miles, but I
<v Speaker 1>couldn't find no rock and roll. Okay, Yeah, So Bryan
<v Speaker 1>Adams signed to A and M Records for a dollar
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen seventy eight. I did read that they took
<v Speaker 1>one of his demo songs called let Me Take You Dancing,
<v Speaker 1>and they remixed it to be a disco song without
<v Speaker 1>his permission, and and he heard that. He couldn't believe it.
<v Speaker 1>He was like, this sucks. I am not letting this
<v Speaker 1>happen again, which is why we get all of this
<v Speaker 1>awesome rock and roll here. But I have to think
<v Speaker 1>that those first lyrics turned on the radio sounded like
<v Speaker 1>a disco must have turned the dial for a couple
<v Speaker 1>of miles. That had to be the inspiration forties lines.
<v Speaker 3>Did you say he signed for one dollar?
<v Speaker 1>Signed for a dollar? It's the only way that you're
<v Speaker 1>gonna make it as a rock and roll artist is
<v Speaker 1>you got to have a label, buddy.
<v Speaker 3>All I see is Eddie Murphy pulling one dollar bill
<v Speaker 3>out of his pocket. One dollar. Thank you, Billy Ray Crazy.
<v Speaker 3>I love the song, I mean, it's just it flows
<v Speaker 3>along with the rest of the album. If you put
<v Speaker 3>Joe Elliott singing, this song sounds pretty deaf Leppard.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah for sure.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, next song on the album sixth single, this song
<v Speaker 3>is called It's Only Love.
<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure. When I told Kevin Davis that we
<v Speaker 1>were going to cover this album, this song immediately came
<v Speaker 1>up as his favorite.
<v Speaker 3>It's great man, such a banger.
<v Speaker 1>And the voices of Tina Turner and Brian Adams belong together.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Now here's the thing. When he was a kid, like
<v Speaker 1>when he was a teenager, he would go see her
<v Speaker 1>live because this is you know, seventies. She's not hit
<v Speaker 1>it big again like it was, you know, it was
<v Speaker 1>Ike and Tina and then crickets for a while. And
<v Speaker 1>so she's playing the club scenes and he gets to
<v Speaker 1>go see her play in the clubs. Then of course
<v Speaker 1>he makes it as a musical artist and he had
<v Speaker 1>loved seeing her before, and so he has this inspiration
<v Speaker 1>to have her sing a duet.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so he and Jim Valance write this song. They
<v Speaker 3>send her the demo and she's like, I love it.
<v Speaker 3>I want to meet you. And she was coming in town.
<v Speaker 3>She had a concert in Vancouver. She reaches out to
<v Speaker 3>Brian says let's meet and so he shows up. She's like,
<v Speaker 3>I love the song. I want to record it with you.
<v Speaker 3>He's like great, okay, you know, I mean, what sounds good.
<v Speaker 3>She's like, how about tomorrow? Like okay, okay, you know, sure,
<v Speaker 3>Tina Turner's gonna come in. So you know, everybody get ready,
<v Speaker 3>Tina Turner's coming in. He said. She blew in like
<v Speaker 3>a whirlwind. They pressed record, she slays it with her vocals,
<v Speaker 3>blows out and then he's like they were all like okay,
<v Speaker 3>whoa that was incredible and He's like, guys, I hope
<v Speaker 3>you got that on tape because that was amazing in
<v Speaker 3>and out and this is what you get.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, his first two albums didn't have a lot going on,
<v Speaker 1>that's right. Then we get Cuts like a Knife, which
<v Speaker 1>is definitely like that opens up lots of doorswa.
<v Speaker 3>But this is the album that's huge for him, right,
<v Speaker 3>twelve million copies.
<v Speaker 1>Now, we talked about how his dad was a member
<v Speaker 1>of the British Army, member of the Canadian Army, became
<v Speaker 1>one of the UN peacekeepers. When he was a kid.
<v Speaker 1>He didn't just live in Canada exclusively. They traveled all
<v Speaker 1>over the place. He lived in various places in Europe.
<v Speaker 1>But the problem was is that he when this album
<v Speaker 1>came out, when Reckless came out, it wasn't a big
<v Speaker 1>hit in Europe until he started touring with Tina on
<v Speaker 1>her Private Dancer tour.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>And so when she would get to this song in
<v Speaker 1>her set, because this is part of her set now too, right,
<v Speaker 1>she would bring him back out, you know, and she'd
<v Speaker 1>talk him up. And that was when Europe fell in
<v Speaker 1>love with Brian Apps.
<v Speaker 3>So this music video is great, right, she has this
<v Speaker 3>big intro. It's her Private Dancer tour. The crowd is
<v Speaker 3>totally at her feet, and she's like, I've got this
<v Speaker 3>guy who sings a song with me, and he's really
<v Speaker 3>cute and he's really great. Let's bring it back Brian Adams,
<v Speaker 3>you know. Yeah, And he comes out, but she is
<v Speaker 3>the queen. She's like in charge of the stage and
<v Speaker 3>is just belting it out and he's having just a
<v Speaker 3>great time with her. I love this video. It's so fun.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I never really appreciated how not tall he was
<v Speaker 1>until I saw him standing next to you.
<v Speaker 3>To her, she says, where of those big heels?
<v Speaker 1>She where's the big heels? But she's like, she's a
<v Speaker 1>four footer of bet, you know, And he's not. He's
<v Speaker 1>about eye to eye with her. I think him and
<v Speaker 1>Michael J. Fox probably all can hang out play basketball together.
<v Speaker 3>Yep. This was the sixth and final single from the album.
<v Speaker 3>This reached number fifteen January of nineteen eighty six.
<v Speaker 1>Absolute banger. I love this song, Love it you too.
<v Speaker 1>So I've mentioned the drummer several times. We've talked about
<v Speaker 1>Keith Scott, the other guys that are standard in the band.
<v Speaker 1>You've got Dave Taylor playing Bay he's playing bass on
<v Speaker 1>this one. And you've got Tammy Mandel on keyboards.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>He also just found this out, played keyboards on Money
<v Speaker 1>for Nothing. Oh well, which I mean talk about an
<v Speaker 1>iconic keyboard part. That's I just thought, oh that's cool.
<v Speaker 1>So anyway, there you go. Brian's standard band Keith Scott,
<v Speaker 1>Mickey Curry, Dave Taylor, and Tommy Mandel.
<v Speaker 3>Next song on the album is a song called Long Gone.
<v Speaker 3>It's a song about divorce. Divorce. Yeah, this has got
<v Speaker 3>to be the sequel to Run to You then.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, telephone's been ringing, ringing off the wall. It's your
<v Speaker 1>Las Vegas lawyer, another long distance call. He says, you
<v Speaker 1>get the house and the car, and I get the
<v Speaker 1>clothes I got on. Now she's gone long, long, long long.
<v Speaker 3>I got a one night love affair, followed to him
<v Speaker 3>running back to her, followed by lungne.
<v Speaker 1>Now. I don't know what the inspiration for this was,
<v Speaker 1>but I can tell you Brian Adams has never been married. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>has a couple of daughters. He's got a young, cute girlfriend.
<v Speaker 1>They've been going out for a while and I think
<v Speaker 1>one of the daughters was born in twenty eleven. One
<v Speaker 1>was born in twenty thirteen. So this guy who's a
<v Speaker 1>late bloomer, yeah, sixteen years older than me, has kids
<v Speaker 1>that are all younger than my kids.
<v Speaker 3>Wow. That's great, man, I love it.
<v Speaker 1>So we didn't really talk about Brian's like beginnings. I
<v Speaker 1>said he bought his first guitar when he was ten,
<v Speaker 1>but he really was talk about a prodigy. He was
<v Speaker 1>a really early bloomer as far as music goes, late
<v Speaker 1>bloomer on one respect, but early bloomer in the other.
<v Speaker 1>He started playing as just kind of a session musician,
<v Speaker 1>singing as a session musician, and the group Sweeny Top
<v Speaker 1>you heard of them, I have. They picked him up
<v Speaker 1>after their singer Nick Glider left. Okay, you remember the
<v Speaker 1>name Nick Glider. No, we're looking at nineteen seventy eight
<v Speaker 1>hot child in the city.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, whoa.
<v Speaker 1>So he left Sweeney Todd. They had some guy come
<v Speaker 1>in named Clark. I remember he was there for half
<v Speaker 1>a minute, and then they brought Brian Adams lead singer.
<v Speaker 1>At sixteen years old. They put out an album called
<v Speaker 1>If Wishes Were Horses, but unfortunately it doesn't really do anything.
<v Speaker 1>But he's billed as Brian Guy Adams on vocals.
<v Speaker 3>Oh hearing that one.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and they recorded Sweeney Todd had had a minor
<v Speaker 1>hit with a song called Roxy Roller, which Nick Glider
<v Speaker 1>had performed, and they re recorded that with Brian. But
<v Speaker 1>I can't find a copy of it anywhere. But if
<v Speaker 1>Wishes were Horses didn't do much and it's still at sixteen.
<v Speaker 1>He leaves the band to go on to do bigger
<v Speaker 1>and better things.
<v Speaker 3>And we talked about I mean he met Jim Vallance.
<v Speaker 3>Tell me story about how he meant Jim Villain.
<v Speaker 1>Well, it's very similar to the Keith Scott story. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>Jim Valence was another guy in Vancouver in competing bands
<v Speaker 1>with Brian, but he just knew he had some songwriting chops.
<v Speaker 1>And so he's got a friend that he sees in
<v Speaker 1>a music store, guitar you know, like a guitar store,
<v Speaker 1>and he sees Jim and he knows their friends, and
<v Speaker 1>he's like, hey, introduce me to that guy. And he
<v Speaker 1>goes just talks to him for a little while in
<v Speaker 1>the guitar store. But he said as he walked out,
<v Speaker 1>I mean as a teenager, he's eighteen years old, walks
<v Speaker 1>out of that store and He's like, I feel like
<v Speaker 1>I've just experienced the beginning of something amazing.
<v Speaker 3>And he was right. He was right, fantastic. I like
<v Speaker 3>this song too. I I shake my booty.
<v Speaker 1>That's great. Yeah. So talking about Jim Valance, you know,
<v Speaker 1>Ryan had started as a songwriter. He had been playing
<v Speaker 1>these session gigs and he's living with his brother and
<v Speaker 1>he can't figure out. You know, he's just if I
<v Speaker 1>can just make rent, like that's going to be to him.
<v Speaker 1>Success is if I can just afford to play music
<v Speaker 1>and make rent, I'm gonna be good. I made it, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>But playing the gigs was not doing it for him.
<v Speaker 1>So he started writing songs and he's I mean he
<v Speaker 1>was writing songs for TV commercials and sitcoms and other
<v Speaker 1>bands and all this stuff. And he says, I can
<v Speaker 1>still remember the day that I had a check come
<v Speaker 1>in and he said it was five hundred dollars and
<v Speaker 1>I thought they had made a mistake. I thought they
<v Speaker 1>put this zero in the wrong place. And he says,
<v Speaker 1>I can't even tell you what where that came from. Like,
<v Speaker 1>I was doing so many things at that moment, but
<v Speaker 1>at that point I really realized. I was like, oh
<v Speaker 1>my gosh, I can make it as a songwriter. I
<v Speaker 1>don't have to be a musician. I can make it
<v Speaker 1>as a songwriter. And so that's how we get all
<v Speaker 1>of these great songs.
<v Speaker 3>Love it, love it Okay. Last song on the album
<v Speaker 3>is a song called Ain't Gonna Cry.
<v Speaker 1>Okay. It's a stellar song. It's not the best song
<v Speaker 1>on the album. It's not a tent pole.
<v Speaker 3>Right for sure. But there's not a skipper on this
<v Speaker 3>whole album. No, no, no, no skippers, no skippers. I agree
<v Speaker 3>with you. It's probably maybe the lowest drinking song on
<v Speaker 3>the album, but still not bad.
<v Speaker 1>No, it's great. I would think that you would probably
<v Speaker 1>end the show with this song, anticipating an encore, and
<v Speaker 1>then come back out with Run to You or Summer
<v Speaker 1>sixty nine or something like that, or Cuts like a
<v Speaker 1>Knife if you're on the Reckless Tooter, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, I want to talk before we end this. I
<v Speaker 3>want to talk briefly about the summer of ninety one
<v Speaker 3>when Brian Adams ruled the airwaves, when a song called
<v Speaker 3>Everything I Do. This song came off of the Robin
<v Speaker 3>Hood soundtrack Huh was played at every single wedding, every
<v Speaker 3>single graduation, every slow dance, every slow dance. This song
<v Speaker 3>was written by Michael Kaman, the guy who did the
<v Speaker 3>music for Diehard, and and a million others, others Mutt
<v Speaker 3>Lang and Brian Adams. Is that an all star of
<v Speaker 3>songwriters right there?
<v Speaker 1>Fricking awesome. It's no wonder that it ruled the airwaves.
<v Speaker 3>Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Lisa Stansfield turned down that
<v Speaker 3>song because it was meant to be sung by Maid,
<v Speaker 3>Marian two, Robin Hood and so Brian said, well, I
<v Speaker 3>guess I'll sing it then, and it became a Hue
<v Speaker 3>LONGUS international hit. Yeah, it was number one for seven
<v Speaker 3>weeks in the US and for a record sixteen weeks
<v Speaker 3>number one in the UK.
<v Speaker 6>No, it's true everything du it for?
<v Speaker 1>I mean Mary Elizabeth Master Antonio turned it down to Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's that's great. We will have to cover that one
<v Speaker 1>next couple of years.
<v Speaker 3>Reckless is a banger of bangers.
<v Speaker 1>It is so good from beginning to end. There are
<v Speaker 1>no skippers. I fear for Heartbeat City because that's what
<v Speaker 1>we're comparing it to now. That being said, speaking of
<v Speaker 1>Mutt Lang, Mutt Lang had his hands all over Heartbeat
<v Speaker 1>City at the point that Mutt Lang was probably as
<v Speaker 1>at his apex as a producer, so Heartbeat City may
<v Speaker 1>have the gums.
<v Speaker 3>Let's check it out. Yeah, next week, come back in
<v Speaker 3>the cars, Heartbeat City