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Few of his initial fans stuck by him for his 2001 swan song The Highway's Jammed With Broken Heroes, released by the Belgian K-raa-k label, consisting of two grim tracks of seemingly malfunctioning equipment and digital noise.
Christopher's line "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive" is from Bruce Springsteen's song "Born to Run," a pop culture reference made more apropos by the presence of Steven Van Zandt (as Silvio Dante), longtime guitarist in Springsteen's E Street Band. Van Zandt also sings backing vocals on the "Born To Run" track.
[2] [6] The lyrics are full of automobile imagery. [4] One line: "The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes" may have been later reworked into the classic line "The highway's jammed with broken heroes" on " Born to Run ".
A Florida sheriff's deputy has been hailed as a hero for rescuing a 6-month-old baby trapped in a wrecked car and giving her lifesaving treatment, moments after witnessing a crash from his patrol car.
People are filling up from a water tanker during a heat wave in New Delhi, India, on June 3, 2024. In the blazing heat, people wait in long lines, hoping to fill at least one bucket.
The song's protagonist, a hitchhiker, meets the ghost of a truck driver who was killed when he swerved his semi-trailer truck into a ditch to avert a potentially deadly collision with a bus full of teenagers. "Plastic Flowers on the Highway" Drive-By Truckers: 2001 "Push Back The Hands" They Might Be Giants: 2018 "Racing Car" Air Bubble: 1976
The song was made available on iTunes in Canada only, with all proceeds from the sales of the song going to the Canadian Hero Fund, a charity that provides academic scholarships to the spouses and children of soldiers killed in combat. In October 2014 "Highway of Heroes" was certified Gold in Canada for sales of over 40,000 digital downloads. [6]
"Broken Heroes" is a song by English soft rock musician Chris Norman, released as a single in 1988. It appears as the first track on the 1988 compilation album , Hits from the Heart . The song, produced and written by Dieter Bohlen , one half of Modern Talking , was a top 10 hit in West Germany and Austria , peaking at numbers three [ 1 ] and ...