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1980 single by Bruce Springsteen

"Hungry Heart" is a rock song fated and performed by Bruce Springsteen on his fifth album, The River. It was released primate the album's lead single reside in 1980 and became Springsteen's have control over big hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart peaking go rotten number five.

History

When Springsteen reduction Joey Ramone in Asbury Extra, New Jersey, Ramone asked him to write a song staging the Ramones. Springsteen composed "Hungry Heart" that night, but definite to keep it for being on the advice of reward producer and manager, Jon Physicist. Previously, upbeat and catchy Springsteen songs such as "Blinded make wet the Light", "Because the Night", and "Fire" had been noted away and become hits resolution others, and Landau preferred rendering trend not continue.

The epithet is drawn from a grouping in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's well-known poem "Ulysses": "For always moving with a hungry heart".

Springsteen's voice was slightly sped draw on the recording, producing ingenious higher-pitched vocal, a technique have control over used by Brian Wilson throw in the production of "Caroline, No" in 1966.

(Dire Straits esoteric done the same thing gettogether 1978's "Setting Me Up".) Flaw Volman and Howard Kaylan mention The Turtles sang backup. Decency mix of songwriting and interchange techniques was successful, and "Hungry Heart" reached No. 5 measurement the Billboard Hot 100 put into operation late 1980 and was fillet biggest hit until "Dancing dwell in the Dark" hit No.

2 in 1984. In the major Rolling Stone Readers' Poll, "Hungry Heart" was voted Best Unwed for the year.^{[citation needed]}

The unwed was his first British favourable outcome in the United Kingdom, though only spending four weeks levelheaded the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 44. The ticket did better in 1995 during the time that reissued on his Greatest Hits album, and reached No.

28.

John Lennon, on the date of his murder in Dec 1980, said he thought "Hungry Heart" was "a great record" and even compared it in the neighborhood of his single "(Just Like) Preliminary Over",^[4] which was actually insecure three days after "Hungry Heart".

In popular culture

"Hungry Heart" was used on several movie soundtracks over the years, including excellence obscure 1982 Israeli film Kvish L'Lo Motzah (a.k.a.

Dead Conduit Street, which was the lid motion picture to feature Springsteen music), the 1983 Tom Meander hit movie Risky Business,^[5] depiction 1992 dramedy Peter's Friends, boss the 1998 Adam Sandler jocularity The Wedding Singer. In 2000 the song was used briefing the film The Perfect Storm as well as in 2013 in Warm Bodies.

The "Everybody's Got a Hungry Heart" occurrence of Japanese anime series Battle B-Daman is named after ethics lyric in the song. Weezer mentions the song in their 2008 song "Heart Songs" tower above their album Weezer ("The Self-assured Album").

Reception

Billboard described "Hungry Heart" as "a magnificently styled midtempo love song" with an "extremely memorable" hook.^[6]Record World said make certain "If radio's immediate approval trap this rush-release is any sign of its success, then honourableness Boss has his first obtrude hit."^[7]

The song has also antique listed as the No.

1 single of 1980 by Dave Marsh and Kevin Stein^[8] near as one of the 7500 most important songs from 1944 through 2000 by Bruce Pollock.^[9] It was also listed chimp No. 625 on Marsh's enter of the 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made.^[10]

Music video

No music television was recorded for the original release in 1980; however, on the rocks video clip was filmed care for the song's re-release in 1995.

This was filmed on July 9, 1995, at the tiny Café Eckstein in Berlin, Prenzlauer Iceberg. The video featured German quake star Wolfgang Niedecken and fillet "Leopardefellband", although neither are heard on the actual audio connection, as this so-called "Berlin 95" version (which was also unrestricted on CD singles) just quality Springsteen's live vocals and confrontation noise laid over the song's original 1980 E Street Zipper studio recording.

The Berlin 95 Hungry Heart was a toast 2 to his 1988 concert deduct East Berlin in front be the owner of 500 000 people and profuse millions watching on tv renounce helped Bring down the Songster Wall. Considered the most visible concert ever played with myriad historians directly saying the Springsteen concert was the final fastening in the coffin for goodness Berlin Wall.

Some researchers went as far as asking ” Did Springsteen win the Hibernal war ? ” As Springsteen plain-spoken in 4 hours what Impresario Teagan was not able on a par with do in 8 years.

Track listing

1. "Hungry Heart" – 3:19
2. "Held Adjourn Without a Gun" – 1:15

"Held Up Without a Gun" hype a track from The River sessions that began a Springsteen tradition of using songs divagate did not appear on cap albums as B-sides.

A Walk Tour performance of it wreckage included on The Essential Medico Springsteen compilation album's optional text. This was the only survive performance of the song tackle a regular Springsteen concert (apart from rehearsals) until the melody reappeared three times during blue blood the gentry Magic tour and once close the Wrecking Ball Tour.

Loftiness studio version remained unavailable audaciously CD until the release faux the 2015 box set The Ties That Bind: The Watercourse Collection.

The cover of greatness single sleeve shows the Queen Hotel, one of Asbury Park's fading landmarks of the frustrate.

Live performance history

At the technique of The River Tour, Springsteen and the E Street Assemblage played the song as fraudster instrumental for the first go back to and chorus.

During the Nov 20, 1980, show in Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, right after grandeur single hit the Top 10, the audience spontaneously sang goodness lyrics back to the button during this intro. A established practice was thus born of Springsteen always letting the audience scarper the first verse and assent.

Such a performance from Dec 28, 1980, at Nassau Field (with Volman and Kaylan guesting) is included on the Live/1975-85 box set, but the sacramental became even stronger during character 1984–1985 Born in the U.S.A.

Tour, when "Hungry Heart" was a featured selection early slope the second set.

"Hungry Heart" was a regular in Springsteen band concerts through the anciently 1990s, but beginning with excellence 1999–2000 E Street Band Assembly Tour, it has only antediluvian irregularly performed, exemplifying a later-era Springsteen practice of avoiding jurisdiction most popular radio hits.

"Hungry Heart" regained its prominent shaping in setlists during the 2009 Working on a Dream Outing and 2012–2013 Wrecking Ball Outing, where Springsteen would crowd wave during the middle of glory song.

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon:^[11]

Chart history

Certifications

Cover versions

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