The massive success of "The Power of Love" in the UK followed with widespread international success for the single in the last months of 1985 and the first of 1986, including a German re-release with a resultant number-nine charting. The success of the song saw Rush perform it live on the BBC’s Top of the Pops in late 1985. As of March 2017, it had sold 1.45 million copies in the UK.
In June 1985, "The Power of Love" was issued as a single in the United Kingdom, where it topped the chart for five weeks in October 1985 and became the best-selling single of the year. It was released as a single in West Germany in December 1984. This was a year after the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood conceived a song with the same title. "The Power of Love" was first recorded in Frankfurt, West Germany by Jennifer Rush for her 1984 eponymous album. The song has been translated into several languages, becoming a pop standard. It also topped the charts in several other European countries, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.ĭion's cover version peaked at number one in the United States, Canada and Australia in 1994. Recorded in Frankfurt, Germany (where Rush is based) and released in West Germany without much success in late 1984, Rush's original version reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in October 1985 and subsequently became the biggest-selling single of the year in the UK as Rush became the first female artist ever to have a million-selling single in the UK-it became the ninth best-selling single of the decade. It has since been covered by Air Supply, Laura Branigan and Celine Dion. " The Power of Love" is a song co-written and originally recorded by American singer Jennifer Rush in 1984. The result looked to one member like a mad scientist's lab hence, "Frankenstein." And yes, the drum workout is buried in there somewhere, among the modern synthesizers, monster guitars, and even Winter's own multitracked saxophones.Cover art for the original UK 7-inch single Problem was, by the time the group finished writing and recording new pieces to add to the song, that solo was almost an afterthought, just one piece of tape surrounded by dozens of others hanging from the ceiling - the group had decided to record each bit separately and then splice them together.
But guitar legend Edgar Winter, like the Allman Brothers, was fortunate enough to have two drum kits, and so he envisioned a tune called "The Double Drum Solo," built as usual around a ferocious intro riff. Rock drum spotlights, like rock itself, had expanded to ridiculous lengths by the early '70s - the longest of them, like Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick" and Cream's "Toad," could run up to a half an hour long on stage. The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" 45.
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