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Related: About this forumHeart & Jimmy Fallon singing Total Eclipse Of The Heart during the eclipse + Heart - Barracuda (Tonight Show 4/8/24)
Videos below, and they're also in this article from.Classic Rock magazine: https://www.loudersound.com/news/heart-on-fallon
To mark the eclipse the first over the United States since August 2017 Fallon and his team of crack writers engaged rock legends Heart to perform Bonnie Tyler's classic hit Total Eclipse Of The Heart during the actual eclipse, turning Jim Steinman's original song of vampire love into something that referenced both the event (the total eclipse) and the performers themselves, Heart. And, if that wasn't literal enough, Fallon sang the "turn around" part of the lyric while actually turning around.
"We have a special show tonight," said Fallon, by way of introduction. "Heart is our musical guest, and today is obviously the solar eclipse. So we thought, we have to do what we have to do. We have to sing Total Eclipse of the Heart with Heart, while watching the solar eclipse. Let's do this."
After this groundbreaking performance which took place on the roof of the Rockerfeller Plaza in New York Heart left the roof of the building and performed their classic 1977 hit Barracuda in the studio. Both clips can be watched below.
"We have a special show tonight," said Fallon, by way of introduction. "Heart is our musical guest, and today is obviously the solar eclipse. So we thought, we have to do what we have to do. We have to sing Total Eclipse of the Heart with Heart, while watching the solar eclipse. Let's do this."
After this groundbreaking performance which took place on the roof of the Rockerfeller Plaza in New York Heart left the roof of the building and performed their classic 1977 hit Barracuda in the studio. Both clips can be watched below.
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Heart & Jimmy Fallon singing Total Eclipse Of The Heart during the eclipse + Heart - Barracuda (Tonight Show 4/8/24) (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Apr 9
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progressoid
(49,999 posts)1. I didn't know about the backstory to Barracuda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda_(song)
Ann Wilson revealed in interviews that the song was about Heart's anger towards Mushroom Records, who as a publicity stunt released a made-up story of an incestuous affair involving Ann and her sister Nancy Wilson. The song particularly focuses on Ann's rage towards a male radio promoter who came up to her after a concert asking how her "lover" was. She initially thought he was talking about her boyfriend, band manager Michael Fisher. After he revealed he was talking about her sister Nancy, Ann became outraged, went back to her hotel room, and wrote the original lyrics of the song.[3]
Producer Mike Flicker added that Mushroom Records was so obtuse in the contract negotiations that Heart decided to discard the album they were working on, Magazinewhich the label still released in an unfinished formand instead sign with the newly formed Portrait Records to make another record, Little Queen. As Flicker put it, "'Barracuda' was created conceptually out of a lot of this record business bullshit. Barracuda could be anyone from the local promotion man to the president of a record company. That is the barracuda. It was born out of that whole experience."[4]
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In a March 2019 interview with Gear Factor, Nancy Wilson revealed that the guitar riff for "Barracuda" was inspired by the riff from Nazareth's cover of the Joni Mitchell song "This Flight Tonight". Wilson said: We've been opening for a band called Nazareth in Europe and also for Queen. And Nazareth had a hit with a Joni Mitchell song that they covered [in 1973] called "This Flight Tonight" that had kind of that riff.
So we kind of borrowed that. And we made it into "Barracuda". And we saw the guys from Nazareth later and they were pissed. "You took our riff!".
But that's kind of what everybodyyou borrow from what you love and then you make it your own. It's one of those sounds too, it's one of those guitar tones that I'm still trying to figure out what we did. [Laughs] It's hard to re-create.[5]
Ann Wilson revealed in interviews that the song was about Heart's anger towards Mushroom Records, who as a publicity stunt released a made-up story of an incestuous affair involving Ann and her sister Nancy Wilson. The song particularly focuses on Ann's rage towards a male radio promoter who came up to her after a concert asking how her "lover" was. She initially thought he was talking about her boyfriend, band manager Michael Fisher. After he revealed he was talking about her sister Nancy, Ann became outraged, went back to her hotel room, and wrote the original lyrics of the song.[3]
Producer Mike Flicker added that Mushroom Records was so obtuse in the contract negotiations that Heart decided to discard the album they were working on, Magazinewhich the label still released in an unfinished formand instead sign with the newly formed Portrait Records to make another record, Little Queen. As Flicker put it, "'Barracuda' was created conceptually out of a lot of this record business bullshit. Barracuda could be anyone from the local promotion man to the president of a record company. That is the barracuda. It was born out of that whole experience."[4]
Music
In a March 2019 interview with Gear Factor, Nancy Wilson revealed that the guitar riff for "Barracuda" was inspired by the riff from Nazareth's cover of the Joni Mitchell song "This Flight Tonight". Wilson said: We've been opening for a band called Nazareth in Europe and also for Queen. And Nazareth had a hit with a Joni Mitchell song that they covered [in 1973] called "This Flight Tonight" that had kind of that riff.
So we kind of borrowed that. And we made it into "Barracuda". And we saw the guys from Nazareth later and they were pissed. "You took our riff!".
But that's kind of what everybodyyou borrow from what you love and then you make it your own. It's one of those sounds too, it's one of those guitar tones that I'm still trying to figure out what we did. [Laughs] It's hard to re-create.[5]