G.O.A.T. Guitarist MADE His Singer PLAY the Guitar SOLO on Song…Became Biggest Hit-Professor of Rock

You know how much I love the stories of the great one-hit wonders of the rock era. Well, today we're starting off a new countdown series on the channel, and this one is going to be a blast… It’s the 10 best Bottled Lightning hits from a single year in the rock era. And to kick off the series, we’re targeting the halfway point of the 80s, including the story of powerhouse vocalist Alison Moyet who publicly rejected her biggest US hit, calling it weak and vowing to never perform it again and she has kept that promise… We’ve also got the supergroup The Firm featuring Jimmy Page, arguably the greatest guitarist ever, who let the lead singer Paul Rodgers play the guitar on their biggest hit, even though the singer could barely play. And then there's the song by Cock Robin that seemed innocent enough in the 80s, but whose lyrics read like a restraining order waiting to happen. The creepiest love song of the 80s, and it’s not Every Breath You Take. Plus Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill that went from millions of streams over 36 years to billions of views overnight due to one single use in a famous show… Let’s do it.

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Hey Muisc Junkies…Welcome to the inaugural episode of the yearly Bottled Lightning countdown. most call them one hit wonders but I call them Bottled Lightening songs that blew up radio and the world for a time but then the artist never had another big hit. For this one we’re hopping in the DeLorean and setting the time circuits to 1985, the year that Back to the Future landed on the big screen. And I gotta tell ya, 1985 was stacked with Bottled Lightning classics. The strictest definition for a one hit wonder in America is a music act that has scored just one Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. But for our purposes we’re loosening the reigns a little. Because yes, there are literal one-hit wonders that did score only one Top 40 hit. But there are also bands that got one massive hit and another Top 40 entry that almost no one remembers. And you’ll find them both on the countdown because they're all Bottled Lighting bands. Let’s do it.

So we’re starting things with a band and song that would I bet most people don’t remember. Because most people think this song was a lesser hit by Journey! In at #10, it’s Giuffria with Call to the Heart. For almost a decade Gregg Giuffria manned the keyboards for the bold and stylish hard-rock glam-boys Angel. So back in 1975, Angel emerged out of Washington, D.C., with a look that turned heads and dropped jaws. While Kiss was painting their faces and breathing fire, Angel went the opposite direction—draped in white satin outfits that made them look like rock and roll angels descended from heaven. It was a little tacky, but it worked. Their elaborate stage shows were all theater, mixing heavy rock with over-the-top drama. At the heart of it all was keyboardist Gregg Giuffria, whose instrumental prowess helped define Angel's signature sound throughout their original run. The band caught a major break when Kiss’s Gene Simmons discovered them, helping secure a deal with Casablanca Records.

The stories behind the songs: Call to The Heart by Guffria, Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer, Radioactive by the Firm including Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers, When your Heart is Weak by Cock Robin, Running up the Hill, by Kate Bush, Invisible by Alison Moyet, Cry by Godley and Creme, the Perfect Way by Scritti Pollitti, Walking on Sunshine but Katrina and the Waves, and Tarzan Boy by Baltimora, perfect one hit wonder...