Quicksilver Lightning

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"Quicksilver Lightning"
Single by Roger Daltrey
from the album Quicksilver: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
B-side"Love Me Like You Do"
ReleasedApril 1986 (1986-04)[1]
Recorded1985 (1985) - 1986 (1986)
GenreRock
Length4:46
LabelAtlantic – 7-89457
Songwriter(s)Giorgio Moroder and Dean Pitchford
Producer(s)Alan Shacklock, Giorgio Moroder
Roger Daltrey singles chronology
"'The Pride You Hide'"
(1986)
"Quicksilver Lightning"
(1986)
"'Take Me Home'"
(1987)

"Quicksilver Lightning" is a song by

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Reception

Cash Box said that the song gives "one of rock’s enduring great voices a solid tune."[3]

The song was released as a single in April 1986, and was a minor success on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts, reaching number 11.[4]

Promotional film

A large portion of the music video was filmed in

taxicab, looking at documents called "Quicksilver", while Jack Casey (Kevin Bacon
) rides behind him. He gets out of the cab and walks into a recording studio, then begins singing the song. The video cuts between Daltrey singing and scenes from the film.

Releases

The song was later released as the B-side to the single, "Hearts of Fire" from Daltrey's seventh solo studio album Can't Wait to See the Movie, in 1987.

B-side

The B-side "Love Me Like You Do", written by Andy Nye, was included as track six on Daltrey's sixth solo album, Under a Raging Moon, but only on the CD and tape versions, not the record version.

Compilation appearance

Other than the original single release, the track is only available on the 2005 compilation album,

Sanctuary
.

Chart performance

A promotional poster for the single.

Singles -

Billboard Singles (North America
)

Year Chart Position
1986 Mainstream Rock Charts 11[4]

See also

References

  1. . Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. ^ "ROYAL TRILOGY: Queen, Yo y Algo Más: junio 2011" (in Spanish). royaltrilogy.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. 25 January 1986. p. 14. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Quicksilver - Original Soundtrack | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 8 July 2015.