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tragichippy 03:29 pm UTC 09/11/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim Steinman And The Success Of Footloose - rockfenris2005 11:22 am UTC 09/11/15 |
| Thanks. An interesting read but what I meant was I couldn't find any information akin to what I had previously read on this board (years ago) about Dean not having actually written the lyrics and only having a songwriting credit in name only. As I can't find any evidence of this, I'm beginning to think I imagined it in some lucid dream or something, in which case ignore everything I just wrote... > > 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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