B-side "Love Me Like You Do" Genre Rock, Pop rock | Released April 1986 (1986-04) Length 4:46 | |
Format Vinyl record, 45 RPM, 7", Single Recorded 1985 (1985) - 1986 (1986) | ||
"Quicksilver Lightning" is a song by Roger Daltrey, who at the time was the former lead singer of The Who. The track is credited as being written by Dean Pitchford and being composed by Giorgio Moroder. The track is the theme tune for the 1986 film Quicksilver starring Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Louie Anderson, Laurence Fishburne and Rudy Ramos. The film was directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly. The film Quicksilver went quite unnoticed, so both the song and the film are not easily remembered.
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The song was released as a single on April 1986, and was a minor success on the Billboard's Mainstream Rock Charts, reaching number 11.
Promotional film
A large portion of the music video was filmed in San Francisco, California, with parts of the video featuring Daltrey recording the song in a studio. The video begins with Daltrey in a Taxicab looking at documents called "Quicksilver", while Jack Casey ("Kevin Bacon") rides behind him, He then gets out of the Taxicab and walks into a recording studio, then he begins singing the song, then it shows scenes from the film, and from then on it jumps from one to the other (Daltrey singing, Film scenes).
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 version, Not the Record version, so the B-side, was the first ever release on the Record format.
Compilation appearance
The track is only included on the 2005 compilation album, Moonlighting: The Anthology, released by Sanctuary.
Chart Performance
Singles - Billboard Singles (North America)