Here is the official Hi Infidelity story... Within a few days Gary remembered a slow song he had never played for anyone called Dont Let Me Down, which he had written about the same painful subject matter as Keep On Loving You. He played me the song, I immediately loved it, suggested a few changes including a new title, and within a couple of hours we had Take It On The Run. We now officially had our momentum back. We spent a week at Crystal, a funky Hollywood recording studio, making the demo tapes which would become our next album. Named for the out of control status of our collective personal lives, Hi Infidelity would go on to become the number one album in the US for six months in 1981, and sell ten million copies around the world. Not bad for five boneheads from the Midwest! By the summer of 1983 we had heard it all. Critics called us one hit wonders, among other things. According to LA Times music editor Robert Hilburn, we had all but sold our rock n roll souls. We needed a way to shut them all up, and the only way we knew was to make another hit record. I had started a song called My Guiding Light in Chicago back in 1975. I liked the verses a lot, but knew the chorus really sucked, and the title was just slightly soap opera. Those verses laid around for years, until one morning in 1984 when it dawned on me that the key to finishing the song had been staring me in the face all along. Cant Fight This Feeling seemed like a lame title to me at first, but it was the heart and soul of the song, so I went with it. I took off from there, and finished the bridge and chorus in time for lunch! In 1985 we released our thirteenth album Wheels Are Turnin which included our second number one single. That summer you couldnt turn on the radio without hearing Cant Fight This Feeling.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:00:00 +0000
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