Could you imagine being separate and you can’t go? It’s awful. You got people from Korea, from South Korea with families in North Korea, they don’t see each other. One day I was watching the news and there was just so much, I just couldn’t put together why the country is separated. I’ve lived there for a little while and worked there, I have friends there, and I know that feeling, the energy, and the connection. Astute listeners will recall that Jason Bonham would be considered a false one-hit wonder for “Wait for You” by Bonham that hit #55 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989 yet is likely the only song rock fans know from Bonham.On writing “Trust In Love” based on his time in Korea – Steelheart has been going to Korea, I’ve been going to Korea, since 1989, and “She’s Gone” is still the number one karaoke song in Korea today.

In one more one-hit wonder connection, the drummer of the Rock Star band is Jason Bonham, son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.

They never reached the Billboard Top 40 again and remain heavy metal one-hit wonders, even though the band subsequently reformed a few times and released new music.Īs for lead singer Miljenko Matijevic, he ended up singing many lead vocals for Mark Wahlberg in the sort-of-Judas-Priest biopic, Rock Star. Sadly for Steelheart, the band broke up after playing an ill-fated show in Denver, Colorado on Halloween night in 1992. Though Steelheart never became a name brand in the United States, they were big in Japan and Hong Kong, where their records sold in big numbers. Listen to I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) by Steelheart “I’lll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) features lead singer Miljenko Matijevic who makes Geddy Lee of one-hit wonders Rush sound like a baritone (Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is always ready with some wisecrack when he plays this song on “House of Hair”). “I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes)” peaked at Number 14 on the Billboard Top 40, yet was another one of those songs that “had legs,” spending over six months on the Hot 100. But as mentioned in earlier articles, I would very quickly get tired of all the “angst,” the “woe-is-me,” the whining that followed like old garbage in Nirvana’s wake, and that still plagues today’s metal scene twenty years later, not to mention the complete lack of any decent guitar solos.īut back to Steelheart and the matter at hand. Personally, In Utero by Nirvana is one of my favorite albums, with Nevermind only a step or two behind. Interestingly, though hair-metal largely disappeared, wasn’t grunge just another name for metal?

Like many of their brethren, Steelheart rode the heavy-metal explosion that started in the mid-1980s and continued until 1992.īut the times they would soon be a-changin’, and within a year of their only Top 40 hit in 1991, Steelheart, along with Warrant, Poison, Skid Row and all the others (save Bon Jovi, who would somehow manage to weather the oncoming storm) would quickly be rendered irrelevant when Nirvana’s Nevermind crashed into the album chart, signaling a changing of the guard and the arrival of grunge. “hair bands,” the band was actually from Norwalk, Connecticut.

Although Steelheart and their hit “I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) sounded like a myriad of L.A.

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