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Sunset Strippers were an electronic music group from the UK. They are best-known for their 2005 song "Falling Stars", which samples the 1988 hit song "Waiting for a Star to Fall" by Boy Meets Girl and was involved in a sampling battle with Cabin Crew. [1] "Falling Stars" reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart in March 2005.
"Waiting for a Star to Fall" is a song by American pop music duo Boy Meets Girl in 1988, written by the duo's members, Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill. They wrote the song after witnessing a falling star at a Whitney Houston concert and originally offered the song to Houston, but Arista Records CEO Clive Davis rejected it.
Rolling Stone critic Ed Naha called "Shooting Star" the "pièce de résistance" of Straight Shooter and "the highpoint of [Paul Rodgers'] writing career." [11] Naha states that "Rodgers nearly assumes the role of the Harry Chapin of crotch rock as he casually recounts the chilling tale of a young rock star … from beginning to end" and that the "calculated effect of the song is made stronger ...
Dancing with the Stars is borrowing a page from some of the best dance videos of previous eras when the eight remaining dance teams will compete to songs behind some of music’s most iconic videos.
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There have been at least half a dozen studio covers of the song including David Gogo on his 2000 album Bare Bones, [13] Lindsay Evans on her 2006 album Road to Damascus [14] and Laura Pursell on her 2023 album Shooting Star. [15] Aaron Neville performed the song live at a MusiCares tribute to Dylan in 2015. Dylan praised Neville's performance ...
On October 25, 2012, Owl City uploaded the official music video for "Shooting Star" to his official YouTube channel. [11] The video's setting is nighttime in an urban area. The video features scenes of Young playing an electric piano under the street lights and people (who emit light from their chests) running, slowly gathering to all run ...