SHOOTING STAR/ HOLLYWOOD / LYRICS IN DESCRIPTION

[genxxxersize]

BEAUTIFUL!

[MAGNUM2F]

@genxxxersize INDEED IT IS SIR...these lads are tremendous, this song is stunning and this dosnt even come from their best LP... Just a tremendous song from a tremendous LP from a tremendous band!

[modestometalhead]

what ever happen to these guys

[uxo68]

@modestometalhead their still around and playing every once and while around the K.C . /mid-west area

[cttxlv]

One of my favorite pieces of vinyl!

[jbolio888]

Thanks for the lyrics, I love playing this on the piano/guitar but always have to make them up :)

[lorileeslove]

why whyyyy,cry cryyyy, love the back up vocals. its like crying in the song,feeling the song.

[marked1959]

and i still talk to her once a weel after 30 years the loave of my life

[genxxxersize]

SUBLIME! ;o)

[sirjammer]

She takes advantage of her long blonde hair…….lord I know its so damn true!!!!

[Jhensy2012]

Good song, missed this one back in '82. Very Journey-esque to these ears.

[fuwmg]

@Jhensy2012 This is actually from 79 :)

[americanfellow]

I'd forgotten how much I used to love this song

[jamstheholy]

Wonderful song, and it does bring back some vivid memories!

[DamonC1964]

Great Band, my all time favorite, still have the CD!

[MrSicilian16]

Great Band!!!

[lorileeslove]

a masterpiece!

[MAGNUM2F]

one of the best songs on a truely great LP.

[MiGrm9]

Growing up in Iowa, our local station KGGO played this all the time. I still love it. It means SUMMER to me.

[zayzel]

Great song!!!!! Thanks for posting it!

[apatheticempathy]

Thank you for posting music when life was simple and good. If you had 5 bucks for gas in my buds '69 red Mustang to cruize around in, we ruled the world. Bad as REAL Muscle Cars and REAL Rock music ! ~

No real worries or health problems, ... just fun. God if I ever knew how crapy this world would get, I would have embraced it so much more, back then.

I miss it all so.

[MetallicBill]

@dbeede1 I have a Best Of cassette with Flesh and Blood and two added songs as I recall, to preserve it I used MiniDisc!

[sainthockey20]

This song does it for me everytime I hear it.

[bucsfan121261]

I saw there Video in Kansas City Mo. in 1979. ( you"v got what I need) after moving back to chicago saw them live at taste of chicago summer 1982. Singers brother was in southern rock band Missouri.

[Dietpepsivanilla]

Ah, to be back in high school in the late 70s and 1980 (the year I graduated) and to be with Marla. I wouldn't make the mistake of not talking to her again.

[tah815]

I had entirely vapor-locked this track. tyvm.

[letfingerswalk]

Holy Toledo Batman, this takes me back! Oh yeah!

[rushnroll1]

Great Cut!

[TonyBudi]

Always been such an awesome tune.

[47TheSteve]

One word -- Holy shit do I love this freaking song and band!!! Ok, ten words and three exclamation points!<--- Ok, four. <------Note the period here however :P

Thanks for the great post.

[b62beers]

This is such a great song....should have had much more airplay than it did.

[greatmya]

Saw this band way back in Cincinnati at a very small club. I wore this record out.

[seanpatf]

The Loop FM98 in Chicago played this song.

[pastthesellby]

As did the Mighty Met. WMET 95.5

[pastthesellby]

@seanpatf

As did the Mighty Met. WMET 95.5.

[pastthesellby]

as did the Mighty met. WMET 95.5.

[capvl99]

@pastthesellby - The mighty WMET. That takes me back. Great station....

[apatheticempathy]

@capvl99 still have one of the WMET neon light circled bumper stickers some where !

That and the Loop fm 98.

We had it so good and didnt really relize it ! Damn ~

[MikeBat68]

@apatheticempathy I didn't start listening to WMET until the summer before it changed format...I was NOT happy when it happened !

[MikeBat68]

@apatheticempathy I didn't start listening to WMET until the summer before it changed format...I was NOT happy when it happened !

[lisalouver]

Have it on my ipod, how it takes me back....thanks for the memories

[ggin1]

The opening is one of the greatest lead-ins ever. The violins come in eerily sad in the second stanza at 1:08 This, of all rock songs, depicts a painful yearning of love. When 3:52 finally comes in, you just can't take it any more. Your heart finally gives in and drops in painful ecstasy.

[AudiophileTubes]

Phenomenal song, and phenomenal 'album'!

[naflack]

looked for this album for like a year in the mid 90's couldn't find it. was very pissed for a long time...good to hear it

[greatmya]

I had it and lost it.

[zimbalatti]

Shooting Star is an awesome band.

The hit Last Chance freaking Rocks!

[MetallicBill]

@zimbalatti There all hit songs that few have discovered. I mentioned them referenced as The Poor Man's Kansas, because Kansas had better success in the long haul, but this band oozes good songs!!!

[MetallicBill]

@MetallicBill *They're All, excuse the typo...typical of me!

[edwardprzydzial]

thank you for posting these memories...

[tonfan]

these guys were big in the San Francisco bay area when this came out,i tried to catch a club gig but it sold out quickly....the lead singer has a truly distinctive voice.

[sunboyfun]

He has a voice not unlike David Pack of Ambrosia. Nice clear timbre, yes.

[mesmursur]

I don't think this has been on the radio for 25 frickin years. My gawd this takes me back...

[xzvious]

has anyone got, or could they throw "Just Friends" out for us... plz

[dmnewton]

This song, + "Flesh And Blood", both simply incredible! I still get shivers whenever I hear either one, nearly twenty years on!

[furyguy62]

Great throwback...wow...reminds me of how old I am

[TheWestbrooke]

@furyguy62 Yeah I'm old too, but never to old to rock-n-roll. Cause that's what they where, great Rock-N-Roll.

[MetallicBill]

I doubt their worth much, LP wise, I own them as well. I believe the band was described as "the poor man's Kansas", which sells them short because they wrote many great songs, not just sounded like Kansas in a historical footnote. Kansas probably just has about equal the number of memorable songs!

[861945japan]

great song brings back memories

[stugotzo99]

Brings back memories of high school.... when bands actually wrote their own music and played instruments. This band was tight.

[MetallicBill]

Wonder if Shooting Star were inspired by Bad Co's song. That was written in memory of their fallen guitarist, so it has a real resonance

[lorileeslove]

every time i hear this song, i just listen to the harmonic voice, the slow intro of the piano and violin, then bang! it gets into some good rock! truly a classic of all time.

thanks for post!

[Pbirv]

This song came out my last semester of high school, in the spring of 1982. Still brings back great memories.