Shaq, rap superstar! It’s a thing that happened. Briefly.
While Shaq’s rap career didn’t exactly set the world on fire and his attempts at film stardom didn’t go much better, he was fortunate enough to have another career to fall back on.
At least now you know what Shaq and the General are listening to while they’re driving around the country and telling people about car insurance.
Enjoy!
Since today is John Glen’s birthday, it only seems appropriate that today’s song of the day should be one of my favorite James Bond themes. From the underrated Octopussy, here’s one of the few songs that I can sing (though I don’t sound anywhere near as good as Rita Coolidge), All Time High!
As with most AC/DC videos, this music video is admirably straight forward. The band comes out and rocks and shows that they don’t need to do anything else to keep people watching.
Enjoy!
Since today is Robert Zemeckis’s birthday, today’s song of the day is an obvious one. Here is The Power of Love, by Huey Lewis and the News!
The power of love is a curious thing
Make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
More than a feeling, that’s the power of love
Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl’s dream
Make a bad one good, mm, make a wrong one right
Power of love that keep you home at night
You don’t need money, don’t take fame
Don’t need no credit card to ride this train
It’s strong and it’s sudden, and it’s cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That’s the power of love
That’s the power of love
First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it, it might make you mad
But you’ll be glad, baby, when you’ve found
That’s the power makes the world go ’round
And it don’t take money, don’t take fame
Don’t need no credit card to ride this train
It’s strong and it’s sudden, it can be cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
They say that all in love is fair
Yeah, but you don’t care (ooh)
But you know what to do (what to do)
When it gets hold of you
And with a little help from above
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
Can you feel it?
Hm-hm
It don’t take money, and it don’t take fame
Don’t need no credit card to ride this train
Tougher than diamonds and stronger than steel
But you won’t feel nothin’ ’til you feel
You feel the power, just feel the power of love
That’s the power, mm, that’s the power of love
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
Feel the power of love
Songwriters: Huey Lewis / John Victor Colla / Christopher John Hayes
Happy birthday, Sofia Coppola!
Today’s music video of the day is the first music video to have been directed by Sofia Coppola. In fact, this may be her first directorial credit. While the song itself is a bit generic, the video is pure Sofia Coppola. Watching it, it’s hard not to see the same vision that, a few years later, would give us The Virgin Suicides, Somewhere, and The Bling Ring. This video was filmed at the Coppola vineyard in Rutherford, California.
Interesting to note that the film’s editor was Spike Jonze, who would later marry Coppola in 1999 (they would get divorced in 2003) and who is thought to have been the inspiration for Giovanni Ribisi’s character in Lost In Translation.
Enjoy!
Since it’s Harvey Keitel’s birthday, it seems appropriate that today’s song of the day should come from the soundtrack of one of his best-known films.
Take My Breath Away was written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock after the producers of Top Gun realized that they needed a romantic scene between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis and that they would need something other than Danger Zone to play during it.
The song was originally offered to The Motels but it was eventually recorded by Berlin. Like most of the soundtrack-related music videos of the 80s, the video for Take My Breath Away is a mix of clips from the film and clips of the band performing.
Enjoy!
Oh, why not?
I feel like this has to be shared at least once a year. No matter how much change there is in the world, we’re always looking for the next big thing.
All together now …. he’s so funky!
The theme of this video seems to be that Def Leppard is the band that has fun onstage and off!
This footage for this video was shot over the course of two shows at McNichols Arena in Denver, Colorado. Originally, the footage was going to be used for a future concert film but, when Armageddon It was released as a single, the band’s record label said that they needed a music video to accompany it and they needed it immediately. Since the band didn’t want to do another “concept video” (and really didn’t have time to come up with a concept in the first place), the Denver footage was hastily edited together.
The end result was that Armageddon It went on to the become the band’s fourth top ten hit in the United States.
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Technically, the French composer Marius Constant did not set out to write the theme song for The Twilight Zone. In the 50s, CBS commissioned Constant to compose a number of short pieces for CBS stock music library, basically as musical stingers that could be used for radio shows. In 1960, when The Twilight Zone needed a theme song, an enterprising CBS employee combined two of Constant’s composition to create the iconic Twilight Zone theme.
Enjoy our short but haunting song of the day.
Through the Shattered Lens 