“Bob Seger Tells The Stories Behind The Hits. “The chorus just came into my head I was driving around in the Hollywood Hills, and I started singing ‘Hollywood nights/Hollywood hills/Above all the lights/Hollywood nights.’ I went back to my rented house, and there was a Time magazine with Cheryl Tiegs on the cover…I said ‘Let’s write a song about a guy from the Midwest who runs into someone like this and gets caught up in the whole bizarro thing.'” Gary Graff, October 1994, Detroit Free Press. Here was Bob’s take on the background to the song: He went head over heels for her… until the morning came when he woke up without her.īut hey, that’s just how Hollywood Nights go, right? Telling the story of a small town boy who, needing a change, travelled West and ended up in California, meeting a beautiful Californian girl. Mental Bob Seger – Hollywood Nightsīob Seger is a great songwriting, one of the old real American Songwriters that would tell stories. Slightly ridiculous, incredibly awesome, it’s a great song and the video has a cool narrative to it.Ĭheck out the outfits in this one. The two leaders meet for a knife fight and the n fortunately, MJ steps in, breaks the fight up, and the gangs break out in a tightly choreographed dance. The two gangs approach each other during the first half of teh video, meeting and sizing other up at Van Halen’s guitar solo.

In what feels like a throwback to the cult movie ‘The Warriors’ (released 4 years prior to Beat It), the video starts out with two gangs approaching each other for a bit of street fighting. It’s a great song, with an incredible music video to accompany it. Here are some of my favourite songs from the game: My Personal 18 Favourite Songs Michael Jackson – Beat ItĪ hit single from MJ’s sixth album, Thriller, Beat It is a favourite amongst guitar fans, for Eddie Van Halen’s legendary guitar solo. It was the first guitar hero game to have a drum and a microphone going on to receive very high scores from critics world wide. Guitar Hero World Tour (aka Guitar Hero IV) was released in 2008 and was jam packed with 86 songs.

Guitar Hero and its controller was based on a game called Guitar Freaks, which was released in 1999, but didn’t see much success outside of Japan. It gave every human being the ability to do something that previously required selling your soul – the ability to play guitar like a badass without having to practice.įirst released in 2005 with the revolutionary guitar controller, there have been 7 major releases across several platforms, spanning a decade. The first Guitar Hero became a smash hit in the video games industry. Satriani’s playing (who has a song on Guitar Hero World Tour) was a massive influence on my playing – here’s me at 17 trying to emulate his moves!

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