Rebel Yell (song)
Rebel Yell (English for " Rebel Cry" ) is a song by British rock musician Billy Idol in 1984, which he wrote with his guitarist Steve Stevens. It first appeared in late 1983 on Idols eponymous album.
Background
During his appearance on the show VH1 Storytellers told Billy Idol, as it came to the creation of the song: He was at an event, in which he observed that also present Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood in how they Bourbon brand of Rebel Yell drank. Although the brand was unknown to him, but the name he liked. He then decided to write a song titled Rebel Yell. Together with Steve Stevens, he finally wrote the lyrics of the song.
The instrumental introduction, which sounds like a combination of an electric guitar and keyboard, Stevens played alone with a guitar by inspiration of Leo Kottke.
The song was, for example, in the episode " Fatal Orchid " Knight Rider as well as in the family comedy Look Who 's Talking 2 hear. Also you could hear it in movies such as The Legend of Billie and Big.
Cover version by Scooter
In 1996, the German techno band Scooter Rebel Yell coverte on their album Our Happy Hardcore. Unlike the original version of the scooter begins with the sentence " In the midnight hour". On May 9, 1996 Sale start was the single, whose tracks are different from the album version.
The video for Rebel Yell is applied to classic vampire movies. The members of Scooter drive at night under a full moon by a bleak area until they arrive at a castle. There they intone Rebel Yell before people dancing in Rococo clothes that turn out to be vampires. At the end scooters are even shown as vampires.