“Made in Heaven” is the third single recorded by Freddie Mercury, and his fourth release as a solo artist. Originally featured in Mercury’s debut album, the song was slightly edited and published as a 45rpm paired with “She Blows Hot and Cold”, described on the record sleeve as ‘A Brand New Track’. The single reached #57 on the UK Singles Chart. After Mercury’s death, the song’s title gave the name to Queen’s 1995 posthumous album Made in Heaven. The song was also chosen, along with “I Was Born to Love You”, to be re-recorded for the album, with the previous vocals over a newly recorded instrumental track.
Category: 1985
The Smiths – Nowhere Fast (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh2jf_GYqA
Early in 1985 the band released their second album, Meat Is Murder. This album was more strident and political than its predecessor, including the pro-vegetarian title track (Morrissey forbade the rest of the group from being photographed eating meat), the light-hearted republicanism of “Nowhere Fast”, and the anti-corporal punishment “The Headmaster Ritual” and “Barbarism Begins at Home”. The band had also grown more diverse musically, with Marr adding rockabilly riffs to “Rusholme Ruffians” and Rourke playing a funk bass solo on “Barbarism Begins at Home”. The album was preceded by the re-release of the B-side “How Soon Is Now?” as a single, and although that song was not on the original LP, it has been added to subsequent releases. Meat Is Murder was the band’s only album (barring compilations) to reach number one in the UK charts.
Sandra – Maria Magdalena
Music track: Sandra – Maria Magdalena (Remastered 1992)
“(I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena”, often known simply by the title “Maria Magdalena”, is a Disco / Synthpop song by German singer Sandra. It was first released in March 1985 as the lead single from her debut album, The Long Play, and it was her first single to be released internationally. The song reached No. 1 on the official German Charts for four consecutive weeks between 13 September 1985 and 4 October 1985. A huge hit in Europe, it also peaked at No. 1 in the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland; No. 3 in Italy; No. 5 in France; No. 2 in South Africa and No. 87 in the U.K. It was also a popular radio hit song in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Greece, the Middle East, Northern Africa and Yugoslavia.
The song was re-released in 1993 in a remixed version, and re-released again only in France as another remix in 1999, as a promotional single. The song was later sampled in her song “Kings & Queens” from her 2012 album Stay in Touch.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(I%27ll_Never_Be)_Maria_Magdalena
Jefferson Starship – We Built This City
“We Built This City” is a song written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf, and originally recorded by the American rock group Starship and released as its debut single on August 1, 1985. The lyrics describe a city built on rock n’ roll music. The lyrics explicitly mention the Golden Gate Bridge and refer to “the City by the Bay”, a common moniker for Starship’s hometown of San Francisco, California. However, the lyrics also refer to “the City That Never Sleeps”, a reference to New York City, and “The City That Rocks”, a reference to Cleveland, Ohio. Furthering this creative ambiguity as to which city the group hails, several radio stations added descriptions of their own local areas when they broadcasted the song.
Paul Young – Everytime You Go Away
“Everytime You Go Away” is a song written by Daryl Hall and covered by Paul Young in 1985. The original appeared on Hall & Oates’s 1980 album, Voices, although it was not released as a single. Hall & Oates also recorded it for their 1985 concert album Live at the Apollo. Young’s version hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 27, 1985. It remains his only number-one hit and one of only two top 10 hits he had on the U.S. pop singles chart. It also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart for two weeks. The song peaked at No. 4 in the UK, Young’s home country. The song won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards. Young’s version features a combination of echoed piano, the distinctive fretless bass of Pino Palladino and an electric sitar.