No Human Being Can HIT This IMPOSSIBLE-SCORCHED EARTH NOTE...Except This GUY! | Professor of Rock
2,881Up next.. the story of Juke Box Hero, an all-time classic rock song from both its iconic singer, Lou Gramm, and guitarist Mick Jones, who both wrote it. It's one of the '80s greatest anthems. They each had a great song and pretty much combined it into one with dual experiences… Mick said it came from a fan who stood in the rain for 5 hours to get tickets to their sold-out show. Lou Gramm said it came from his own experience standing outside a sold-out concert hall, and being unable to see Hendrix perform. Many rock singers have called it the most challenging song to perform in history… Most can’t hit the notes, but boy, did Lou do it, even if he had to fight a legendary producer tooth and nail to get it just right. Juke Box Hero became a #1 rock song and sold a million copies twice, 25 years apart! The story is next.
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So it’s time for another edition of our series #1 in our hearts. where we celebrate a song that absolutely should’ve been a #1 hit, but it came up short due to various reasons… Toady’s song is one of the most powerful rock songs ever. I’ve asked a lot of rock singers what they think is the most vocally challenging song to sing is and I’ve heard this one more than any other.
It came from a blockbuster album from 1981 that camped out at #1 on the albums chart for months. I’m talking about Jukebox Hero from Foreigner 4, written by no-holds-barred scorched-earth singer Lou Gramm and uber-producer/ legendary multi-instrumentalist Mick Jones.
A band that has sold 80 million records and had 17 big hits that are still played on the radio every day, and they haven’t so much as sniffed a nomination for the Rock Hall of Fame. Probably the biggest Rock Hall snub currently. This song came from both the singer and guitarist, Lou and Mick, having different experiences but similar in subject. Mick invited a kid who had waited five hours in the pouring rain to try and get tickets to a sold-out Foreigner show backstage.
He showed this kid everything that went on before the concert, and the kid had this look in his eye that inspired Mick to go write a song. Then Lou Gramm had the same experience, but he was the kid, on the outside looking in. He wanted to go to a Jimi Hendrix show as a teenager, but didn’t have a ticket. So he dreamed of being on that stage. So they each had part of a song and combined it to create one of the biggest rock showstoppers EVER!
It became a live staple, and it actually only peaked at #26 on the pop charts but went to #3 on the rock charts. What Lou and Mick share is really cool. Lou butted heads with legendary producer Mutt Lange as Mutt was trying to push him to sing like Bonn Scott. But Lou had different ideas. He’ll tell you coming up next. Last of all, the song would go gold and help the album Foreigner 4 sell around 10 million copies worldwide. But decades later, the song would sell a million copies digitally!
By the way, the top 5 songs on the Billboard charts the week that Jukebox hero peaked at #26 were as follows: at #5 Make a Move on Me by Olivia Newton John, at #4 That Girl by Stevie Wonder, We Got the Beat by the Go-Go's was at #3… At #2 you had Open Arms by Journey and at #1 Joan Jet was spending it’s 3rd weeks of 6 weeks at #1…