Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"The Boys of Summer" is a song by American musician Don Henley. The lyrics were written by Henley and the music was composed by Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . It was released on October 26, 1984, as the lead single from Henley's album Building the Perfect Beast . [ 4 ]
His second album, Building the Perfect Beast, (Geffen Records, 1984) features the Top 10 singles "The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", which reached number five and number nine on the Hot 100, respectively. After five years of absence from new material, Henley's third studio album was released in 1989.
Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys is a greatest hits album of the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on June 10, 2003 by Capitol Records.The original collection was the most comprehensive single-disc compilation of the band's music, with 30 tracks including nearly every U.S. Top 40 hit of their career, except for "The Little Girl I Once Knew" (1965) and "It's OK" (1976).
The Boys of Summer may refer to one of several literary and musical works: The Boys of Summer, a 1972 book by Roger Kahn "The Boys of Summer" (song), a 1984 song by Don Henley, also covered by DJ Sammy and The Ataris "Boys of Summer" , an episode of The Wire; Boys of Summer, a manga comic
A single release, "The Boys of Summer", reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. [32] The music video for the song was directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino and won several MTV Video Music Awards including Best Video of the Year. Henley also won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song. [33]
This album also included their hit cover song, originally recorded by Don Henley, "The Boys of Summer", which much to the dismay of the band became their "accidental" second single after the radio station KROQ in Los Angeles started playing it, even though the band had already chosen the song "My Reply" as their second single. [13]
Reviewing the album in Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder wrote that "Building the Perfect Beast is a meticulously crafted and programmed set of songs about love and politics. The first side is given to personal reflections on love and loss, such as the wistful "Boys of Summer."
Paul started on drums around the age of four. His parents were both gospel musicians, and he drummed in his grandfather's Dixieland band. At seven years old he appeared playing drums in the Don Henley music video for the song "The Boys of Summer".