"Hero" is a song recorded by Chad Kroeger (lead vocalist of Nickelback) and Josey Scott (then lead vocalist of Saliva) for the soundtrack to the 2002 film Spider-Man. It was written by Kroeger and recorded specifically for the film.
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The song was the result of a collaboration between Kroeger and Scott. Scott told Yahoo!'s entertainment news service LAUNCH, "(Kroeger) had the idea for the song 'Hero,' so I came up to Vancouver and met him. He pitched me the idea, and I thought that was pretty dope."
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July 13, 1968: The Doors had one of the fastest-rising songs of the decade as "Hello, I Love You" climbed from Number 77 to 22 on this date.
"Jim Morrison wrote the words for Hello, I Love You when we were still in a band called Rick & the Ravens. 'Sidewalk crouches at her feet / Like a dog that begs for something sweet.' That’s a crazy great lyric!
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He couldn’t play an instrument but he’d come up with melodies in order to remember his incredible words. We’d been walking around the boardwalk of Venice, one of the few diverse areas in LA in the 60s, when Jim saw an African American girl. She was the 'dusky jewel' who inspired the song." John Densmore, drummer
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July 13, 1973: Bob Dylan released the "Soundtrack to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid."
July 13, 1985: "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran from the same named James Bond film hit the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
This album was unusual on several counts. For starters, it was a soundtrack for Sam Peckinpah's movie of the same title, a first venture of its kind for Bob Dylan. For another, it was Dylan's first new LP in three years.
Dylan's album was sometimes rough-at-the-edges and sometimes a gently refined piece of country- and folk-influenced rock, devised to underscore a very serious historical film by one of the movies' great directorial stylists.
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To date, there have been 24 movies in the Bond franchise, and there have been 25 opening-title themes. Only one of those 25 theme songs has ever made it to #1. Two Bond themes peaked at #2: Paul McCartney & Wings’ “Live And Let Die,” from 1973, and Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does It Better,” from 1977.
Like “Live And Let Die” and “Nobody Does It Better,” the only Bond theme ever to hit #1 comes from the franchise’s often-derided Roger Moore era. Unlike those songs, though, this particular Bond theme doesn’t really build on that classic Bond archetype. Instead, Duran Duran’s “A View To A Kill” is very much a product of its time.
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July 13, 1991: "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" by UB40 peaked at Number 7 on the US music singles chart.
"Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" is a 1973 song by Al Green, the second single released from his album Call Me. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1990, UB40 released "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" as the second single from their ninth studio album Labour of Love II. It reached only number 46 in the United Kingdom, but proved to be much more successful elsewhere.
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