| re: Holding Out For A Hero | |
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Vin 02:00 pm UTC 02/09/07 |
| In reply to: | Holding Out For A Hero - Scaramouche 02:12 am UTC 02/09/07 |
| If Pitchford really did write ALL the lyrics, which I've always questioned, he did a bang-up job of Jimitation. > Dean Pitchford on working with Jim, on Hero: > > "Well, in the case of Footloose, it was always driven > forward from the script [which Pitchford wrote]. We knew > exactly where songs were going to go. As I mapped it out, > we had to trim, just because we knew what budget we had so > we had to spend our pennies wisely. In every case, I had > to ask: what's the rhythm of the song, what kind of artist > is singing the song? Is it black? Is it pop? Is it > rock-n-roll? Is it dance? That brought into play a whole > list of artists and, in some cases, their collaborators. > For instance, we had this idea to go to Bonnie Tyler to > sing "Holding Out for a Hero" and she was only working > with [composer] Jim Steinman. There's different kind of > energy that's necessary when [music's] coming at you from > the screen as against radio speakers and, with Jim > [Steinman], who has that sense of theatricality, I didn't > have to do too much prodding. He knew I wanted this to be > big. I did walk into my meeting with Jim with the full > lyric [to "Holding Out for a Hero"]. I had studied a lot > of his work and he's very clever and wordy and he keeps > the momentum going—like in "Paradise by the Dashboard > Lights"—so I wrote a Jim Steinman lyric. Also, we rented > an upright piano and rolled it into Herb Ross' office. > Instead of running off and working in the studio before we > got the thumbs up from Herbert, we would go in and sing > the songs at the piano or on guitar and he would say > 'yeah, that's the right direction' and then we would demo > it to show the artist. With "Holding Out for a Hero," we > brought a girlfriend of mine who's a singer and we went > into Herbert Ross' office and Jim Steinman, with the long, > long hair, sat there at the keyboard and played the full > orchestra part of the song and when he finished, there was > blood on the keyboard. He played the s—t out of that song. > Afterwards, Herbert Ross said: Do it—that's the song." > > I think Hero has great lyrics, especially the lines: > > 'somewhere after midnight, in my wildest fantasies, > somewhere just beyond my reach, there's someone reaching > back for me...' > | |
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