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"The Music of the Night" (also labelled as just "Music of the Night" and originally labeled as "Married Man") is a major song from the 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera. The music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe. [1]
"Of the Night" is a mash up of two 1990s Eurodance songs, the 1993 hit "The Rhythm of the Night" by Italian act Corona and the 1992 hit "Rhythm Is a Dancer" by German group Snap!. [2] [3] The song was first featured on Bastille's mixtape Other People's Heartache, which was released in 2012 as a free download. [4] [5] That's a strange one.
"Undercover of the Night" was released as the first single taken from the album on 31 October 1983. Initial reception was warm with the song reaching number 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, though the violent depictions spelled out by Jagger were believed to be why its popularity quickly waned.
The song's lead vocalist and composer Paul Cotton would describe "Heart of the Night" as a song which (Paul Cotton quote:) "kind of wrote itself... in twenty minutes", being "inspired by my love and lust for New Orleans", [3] a city Cotton had previously focused on "Down in the Quarter" (album Head Over Heels/ 1975); Cotton has also stated that he wrote "Break of Hearts" (album Ghost Town ...
The song was sampled by indie hip hop group Conrad Hilton on the song "Into the Night/Heat of the Night" [citation needed] and Decoy's version of "Into the Night", [citation needed] both of which feature Benny Mardones in the songs. Rapper Triple J used the melody and interpolated "Into the Night" for his song "16 Years Old". [21]
Originally written and recorded by Peter McCann for his 1977 self-titled album, "Right Time of the Night", which would serve as the B-side for McCann's own 1977 top ten hit "Do You Wanna Make Love", featured a distinct second verse that was eventually reworked by Jennifer Warnes; she herself wrote lyrics for a less overtly masculine second verse which McCann rejected, eventually himself ...
The song featured in the 2016 film Ghostbusters: Answer the Call. [4] The song also features in the twelfth season of RuPaul's Drag Race as a running gag, due to contestant Crystal Methyd's out-of-drag resemblance to El DeBarge. Lyrics and sample from the chorus of "Rhythm of the Night" were adopted in CNCO's song "Pretend".
"The Rhythm of the Night" was awarded one of BMI's Pop Awards in 1996, honoring the songwriters, composers and music publishers of the song. [ 27 ] The song was featured prominently in the closing scene of the 1999 film Beau Travail , with the film's protagonist engaging in a frenzied solo dance performance to the song on an empty nightclub stage.