Coming up next, an interview with an 80s artist whose signature song has become a teenage anthem for the outcasts and a quintessential 80s classic… Nik Kershaw and his teenage anthem Wouldn’t It Be Good. It was recorded for his debut album and the song was so big it put the rookie on the biggest live stage in the world in front of billions of people at Live Aid including playing with many of his heroes… and then the next year his song was re-recorded by a former member of Three Dog Night, Danny Hutton. But the band was called something else, Danny Hutton Hitters and he had an unknown sing lead… so many didn’t make the connection. That version was used in a pivotal scene in the iconic 80s film Pretty in Pink and the song was all over the radio again… Up next we have both of these artists take on this song and try to find out why the movie didn’t just use the original hit instead of a remake. It’s a fun one next.
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I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs and albums. Today we have something special that I doubt has been done up to this point. If you don’t recognize this artist or song name once you hear both versions of this song you’ll remember it. It’s a quintessential song of the 80s and a true anthem for the outcasts. Today we have Nik Kershaw on his 1984 classic ditty Would’t It Be Good.
Then this song was remade and put in the John Hughes classic film Pretty In Pink … and guess what We also have Danny Hutton from Three Dog Night who did that remake as a band he formed called Danny Hutton Hitters… It was sung by someone else so nobody really made the connection. Up next we have interviews with both Nik Kershaw and Danny Hutton on the story behind this song including the craziness of playing live aid as a rookie and how he was struggling to finalize the guitar part for Would’t it be Good and borrowed a trick from the band Queen.
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25 июл 2023
