- #GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU MOVIE#
- #GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU PLUS#
- #GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU TV#
And that line: ‘If you’re young and you’ll never be old, music can make your dreams unfold’, I still believe that. “I think the song will resonate for the next hundred years,” he considers, “whether people want to believe there’s a god or not. Russ Ballard believes God Gave Rock And Roll To You’s message lives on, now more than ever. I believed that he could somehow turn things around. Eric showed up and stayed until the very end of the video shoot, which lasted until three in the morning. “We were concerned about whether he was healthy enough or strong enough to do it. “When it came time to shoot the video, Eric begged to be in it, even though he hadn’t played on the record,” Simmons wrote in his book Kiss And Make-Up. Touchingly, God Gave Rock And Roll To You II marked the final contribution to Kiss of drummer Eric Carr before he succumbed to heart cancer, aged just 41. God knows how much money that song has made me, but it’s probably bought me my house."Īlthough Kiss reached No.4 in the UK with their version, in January 1992, for once the song’s commercial performance was not Simmons’s chief concern.
#GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU TV#
Apparently, Gene said on the TV show School Of Rock: ‘When I wrote God Gave Rock And Roll To You…’ But at least the royalties are good. I don’t mind that most people think it’s a Kiss song. “Funnily enough, when I wrote the song, it was about the speed Kiss made it. “That new lyric was more universal, perfect for what Kiss were doing,” he says. Now, instead of the quaint instruction to ‘ love your friend and love your neighbour/Don’t step on snails, don’t climb in trees/Love Cliff Richard but please don’t tease’, listeners were urged to ‘ put your faith in a loud guitar’. The tweaked title of Kiss’s version, God Gave Rock & Roll To You II, denoted that the New Yorkers had raised the tempo and rewritten the verse lyric. That evening, when they came on, I was in the wings, and suddenly Kiss walk up in their makeup and platform heels, about seven-and-ahalf feet tall. At the sound-check, they weren’t in any slap. “One night in about 1973, we were playing in New York with Wishbone Ash and Kiss,” he remembers. They tried out a few bands, then came back and said: ‘ Kiss are going to do it.’”īy this time Ballard had already made the acquaintance of Gene Simmons and co. Nigel told me he was collating the soundtrack, and he’d suggested God Gave Rock And Roll To You for the final scene.
#GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU MOVIE#
Le single a également été la première à Paul Stanley et Gene Simmons à chanter ensemble depuis " I", single paru en 1981 sur l'album Music from "The Elder".Then in the early 90s, Ballard was sitting in the lobby of a US record label, when former Blondie bassist Nigel Harrison stopped and told him about an upcoming movie called Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the sequel to a hit comedy about two rock-obsessed slackers, played by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.
La chanson s'est classée à la 18 e position en Australie, 9 e en Allemagne, 24 e en Suède, 4 e en Suisse, 21 e au Mainstream Rock Tracks chart et 4 e au Royaume-Uni. God gave rock and roll to you (I know life sometimes can get tough) Gave rock and roll to you (I know life sometimes can be a drag) (But people, we have been given a gift) Put it in the soul of everyone (We have been given a road) God gave rock and roll to you (And that roads name is. VH1 Classic a diffusé la vidéo Kissology Volume Two: 1978-1991, Gene Simmons déclara « It's not just a cover song for a soundtrack, but a testament to Eric Carr, and I think a lot of people don't realize that.» (Ce n'est pas simplement une reprise pour une BO, mais un testament à Eric Carr, et je pense que beaucoup de personnes ne réalisent pas.). Durant les années maquillage de Kiss, il n'y avait aucune vidéos proéminente avec Eric Carr, même s'il faisait partie du groupe à cette époque. Le clip présente le groupe jouant dans une pièce avec les flashback de Stanley et Simmons à l'époque de l'apogée de Kiss où les membres du groupe étaient maquillés. Bien qu'il fût trop malade pour jouer de la batterie sur la piste, il s'occupa des chœurs pendant la pause a cappella, chantant la ligne « …to everyone, he gave his song to be sung», et de la batterie sur le clip vidéo.Ĭelle-ci a été tournée à Los Angeles ( Californie) en juillet 1991 et réalisée par Mark Rezyka. Les crédits sont attribués à Russ Ballard, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons et Bob Ezrin.Ĭette chanson est la dernière du groupe avec Eric Carr à la batterie avant sa mort en 1991. Le titre est une reprise d'un morceau interprété par le groupe Argent et paru sur l'album In Deep en 1973.
#GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU PLUS#
D'abord publiée en single en 1991, parue ensuite sur la bande son du film Les Aventures de Bill et Ted, elle a, plus tard, été intégrée à l'album Revenge sorti en 1992. God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II est une chanson du groupe de Hard rock américain Kiss. Russ Ballard, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Bob Ezrin
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