I Could Get SUED for Saying This But This 80s Classic is the BIGGEST RIP-OFF EVER!-Professor of Rock

Описание: Coming up….we celebrate songs from one of the greatest years in music. These songs were HUGE back in the day, but decades later, sound really DATED. Just because they haven’t held up well doesn’t diminish our love for the songs, but it makes for an interesting study in music. One of the songs, Turn Up the Radio, came from a bunch of drinking buddies who were all in other bands but jammed for fun on the weekends. But it just so happened that the drummer was jogging buddies with frontman David Lee Roth of Van Halen, and he heard one of their drunken jams and loved it so much he invited them to open for his band on one of the biggest tours ever. Another one, She Bop by Cyndi Lauper, was written about self-love and faced the wrath of a bunch of politicians’ wives who named it one of the dirtiest songs ever and got it banned. Another was written by an unknown singer named Rockwell who tried to hide his true identity due to his famous father and even used a fake British accent to throw off reporters, and one song became a hit because a famous actress was on a radio show and she was trying to play her boyfriend’s band but played the wrong side of the tape where the German singer Nena blew up the phones lines and made the song that was never supposed to be released in america a smash. Let’s do it.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Executive Producer
Brandon Fugal

Honorary Producers
David Roche, Bob Bell, Holly, W.T.F, James Dorsey, Bruce Suit

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast

Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU
Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m
iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan

Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fo...

Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of...

#classicrock #80smusic #vinylstory #vanhalen

Hey music Junkies…Professor of rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time!: It’s time for another edition of our show DATED where we celebrate those special songs that due to their production and or theme are not really timeless but of their time… they send us right back to the good old days: This time we are going back to 1984:

At #10 I have one that will take you back… It’s “Send Me an Angel” by Real Life from Australia: “Send Me an Angel was constructed on a classic, catchy, keyboard-driven beat, that screams early 80s new wave, utilizing thin, treble-dominant, and melodic synthesizer sounds that defined that period of music:

The story behind Real Life’s Australian new wave classic “Send Me an Angel” is one of rapid ascent and chance encounters.

Frontman David Sterry was working as a taxi driver to make ends meet when the band formed in 1980, following a serendipitous ad in The Age newspaper that David answered. In the early 80s, David & his keyboard partner, Richard Zatorski, were broke musicians, trying to get a nut wherever they could. Oftentimes right after a gig, David would jump into his cab and drive paying passengers around just to make some kind of cash. David & Richard had plenty of cash, but they needed a hit song. One Wednesday evening while on their way to a gig, David was riding in the back of Richard’s beat up old car, with his Walkman playing. David listened to Richard’s latest piece. From the opening keyboard riff, he knew Richard had nailed his part, and the task now was to get the lyrics right. For David, the words were almost finished—three-quarters complete—and the title sprang to mind: “Send Me an Angel.”

As they neared the gig, there’s a stretch of road with a view across the bay. When they arrived at that point, they understood the strange light in the sky—Lorne was on fire on Ash Wednesday. The series of fires claimed 47 lives in Victoria and 28 in South Australia. The song’s breakthrough crossed oceans thanks to an American radio programmer. Rick Carroll, while in Sydney in 1983, heard the track and brought it back to Los Angeles, where he began spinning it on KROQ-FM, helping turn “Send Me an Angel” into a hit in the United States. The song was No. 1 in Germany and New Zealand and Top 10 in other countries. In the US, "Send Me an peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, spawning a remix version that came out in ’89, and actually rose three slots higher to #26: So it charted twice in the 80s…

It at #9, this one really pushed the envelope. “She Bop” by Cyndi Lauper. There’ve been plenty of songs about female self-love over the past 30 years—from Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” to Hailee Steinfeld’s “Love Myself”—but someone had to kick things off and get the conversation rolling.