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rockfenris2005 11:22 am UTC 09/11/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim Steinman And The Success Of Footloose - rockfenris2005 11:19 am UTC 09/11/15 |
From the same link Jim Steinman literally bled for this song when he demoed it for the Footloose director. Dean Pitchford told us the story: "I remember bringing in a girl to sing 'Holding Out For A Hero' with Jim Steinman pounding the crap out of the keyboard. When we were done, I looked over and there was blood on the keys. That's the kind of 'DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN da DON DON DON da DA DUN.' He was just pounding the s--t out of the keyboard. Everybody was just grooving along as he's pounding and this girl's singing, singing, singing. And at the end of the whole thing I looked over and there was blood up and down the keyboard. It cut his fingers." > > In putting together songs for his movie Footloose, Dean > Pitchford used seven different co-writers and eight > different artists, since he wanted a variety of styles. On > this song, he wrote with the mercurial Jim Steinman, who > wrote most of Meat Loaf's hits, including "Paradise By the > Dashboard Light" and "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I > Won't Do That)." In our interview with Dean Pitchford, he > told us how this one came together: "We decided that we > were going to go after Bonnie Tyler, who was not even > really happening at the time. I had fallen in love with > Bonnie Tyler because she'd sung 'It's a Heartache,' and > the song 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart' was a hit in > Australia when I heard it, but it had not broken in the > United States yet. But when we went to try to find her, > nobody at Columbia Records knew who had signed her and > where she was. We finally tracked her A&R rep down to > Nashville, because in the United States she had been > signed as a country act, and that was where 'It's A > Heartache' had first broken. But in order to get to Bonnie > Tyler and to get her to sing something for us, I was going > to work with Jim Steinman. And I'd known Jim Steinman's > work from all of his Meat Loaf days. So I sat down and > listened to a lot of Jim Steinman. And I came up with > 'Where have all the good men gone and where are all the > gods? Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising > odds?' I wrote that lyric with an ear toward snaring Jim > Steinman, and it worked. He looked at the lyric and he > immediately knew what to do with it because it was so much > in a style that he was familiar with. So in every case I > tried to write a lyric that was in the style of the artist > I was working with or the writer that I knew I would have > to write with. Bill Wolfer, for instance, was a producer > for Shalamar, and I knew what I needed to do in order to > snare his involvement. And 'Dancing in the Sheets' is > different than 'Holding Out For A Hero' is different than > 'Almost Paradise.' So every one of those represented a > different head set, a mindset." > > > Although, after a quick Google search, > > | |
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