God Gave Rock 'N' Roll to You II

1991

God Gave Rock ' n' Roll to You II is the title of a 1991 published by the American rock band Kiss as a single song, which reached in many countries, the top ten and crazy for the soundtrack to the movie Bill & Ted's journey into the future had been taken.

Genesis

The title was originally written as God Gave Rock and Roll to You by Russ Ballard, 1972, he had appeared as the opening track on the album In Deep Argent the band, who belonged to Ballard. The original length of the title was 6:44 minutes.

James Iovine, CEO of Interscope record company wanted to have this song on the soundtrack to the film, but he had the idea that Kiss should record the song for it. Iovine instructed the producer Bob Ezrin order to realize this idea. Ezrin took on the job because of the time frame (five days ) and the budget were reasonable.

The song has been reworked by Stanley, Simmons and Ezrin and received a new text, only the chorus and parts of the second stanza remained. Because of the massive changes in the song God Gave Rock ' n ' Roll to You II was renamed, then it was recorded for the soundtrack of the film. Kiss drummer Eric Carr had surgery in April 1991 due to a tumor in the heart and could not play, had at this time but recovered enough that he could record the backing vocals for the title with.

The role of the drummer for the title took over Eric Singer, who had previously played on two albums by Black Sabbath, as a drummer at Badlands and on some singles by Gary Moore. Besides, he had already played drums for demo recordings of Paul Stanley Kiss the album Hot in the Shade and was also a drummer was on his solo tour in 1989.

The band acquired after the recordings the publishing rights for the song to be able to release the song on a Kiss album can.

Publication

God Gave Rock ' n' Roll to You II was published in July 1991 by Interscope Records. For the soundtrack, the song was entitled God Gave Rock and Roll to You II, the used notation in this article shall apply to the publication of Kiss. The single contained a shortened version ( Edit) of the title that was 3:53 minutes. On the CD single, two other titles from the Bill and Ted soundtrack, namely Junior's Gone Wild by the band King's X and Shout It Out by Slaughter were.

God Gave Rock ' n' Roll to You II was launched only with publication of the Kiss album Revenge on 19 May 1992 in full length; the version used on the album is a remix of the version recorded for the film. The song also appeared as the second track on the single to Unholy.

The published as a single and included on the soundtrack album version of the song differ from the version used in the film: In the film, listen to a guitar solo with a length of about 40 seconds, which was played by Steve Vai and later on his album the Elusive Light and Sound, Vol 1 was published under the title Final Solo.

Quotes

"With ' God Gave Rock' n 'Roll to You ," we wrote a song for a cool movie, [... ] and were able to find out at the same time, if we could work together as a team. Gene, Paul and I made up right where we left off in New York - as saw us more as family than as friends - and enjoyed our collaboration very ".

" Interscope Records asked us if we would do the song. Honestly, no one can remember the original version, except for the chorus. When I listen to the version of Argent, I can not even say exactly what he is hell at all; they sing about flowers, trees and snakes. We told the label we would do it, but we would have to rewrite it. "