B-side "Under the Gun" Format 7" single Label Portrait | Released 1982 Genre Hard rock | |
Length 5:05 (album version)
6:14 (extended version)
3:58 (single version) | ||
"Fantasy" is the debut single by Canadian rock musician Aldo Nova and is his most popular work to date. Released on his eponymous debut album in 1982, the song climbed to #3 on the Mainstream rock chart, and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song was featured in a flashback sequence in the final episode of the popular television series Rob & Big. A cover version of the song, performed by Steel Panther, is the current theme song for the MTV show Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory.
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VH1 listed it at #78 on its countdown for the 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s.
Music video
The video shows Aldo performing with his band at a concert. It is best remembered by fans for its intro, which starts out with a man holding an electric guitar and two bodyguards holding machine guns, waiting for someone. Then comes a helicopter, landing from the sky, and Aldo comes out in a very contoured leopard-print suit, being escorted to the stage. When they encounter a locked door, which the bodyguards can't open, Aldo grabs his guitar and fires a laser into the door and it opens.
In popular culture
"Fantasy" was used in the THQ/Volition Saints Row: The Third video game and its soundtrack.