Song Sat For 10 YEARS...REALIZED the Verse Should Be The Chorus & BOOM it Hit #1 | Professor of Rock

Up next a #1 hit that took 10 years to write. Kevin Cronin of Reo Speedwagon had the verses finished but he had been searching for the chorus for so long…He felt blocked. With pressure to write a hit for his band’s next album he scheduled a writing session with a famous contemporary but the morning of he canceled because he was physically sick! He was so frustrated that he stared cussing Screaming out to the muse! What is this song about! Just then it him like a ton of brick… up next he story of one of 80s greatest #1 hits Can’t Fight This Feeling by Reo Speedwagon with an exclusive interview and Kevin explains the cheesy, bubblegum lyric that’s he’s caught endless crap for! The story of an 80s power ballad.
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1985 the mid point of the greatest decade in history… it was the year of live aid, it was the year that the Charity Single We Are The world by USA for Africa was released bringing considerable focus on the plight in Ethiopia, it was the year that Brits like phil collins, Wham, Tears For Fears Dire Straits, Aha Battled Americans madonna, Hall and Oates, Huey Lewis and the News and Whitney Houston battled it out for chart supremacy and also the PMRC Parents Music Resource Center freaked out about the filthy fifteen that and other such groups and songs that were corrupting our young people. I certainly didn’t feel corrupted. For some reason it only made want to go out and buy more Wasp and Motely Crue albums. Ha.
and Well 85 was a good year for another American band who would fight for the #1 spot in the charts for a welcome and needed AOR comeback. and it came in the form of Reo Speedwagon’s power ballad I Cant’ Fight This Feeling anymore. REO had taken the world by storm in 1981 with the biggest selling album of the year, the 15 weeks spectacular HI infidelity with the equal great singles, Keep On loving You which went to #1 and Take it On the Run which went to #5. It seemed like this band would be at the top of the charts forever but their next album really suffered from being put out too fast.
Singer/songwriter Kevin Cronin said that after the huge success of Hi Infidelity... everyone was putting pressure on he and the band to get back in the studio as quickly as we they could to ensure that they \ made the most of the situation. As the main songwriter Kevin felt that he didn’t have enough good material or tracks that met his standard but the pressure was immense and he buckled under it pushing to get what he had recorded. The result was the 1982 album Good Trouble.. As soon as the record came out it was clear it was not going to have the same kind of massive success that Hi Infidelity achieved.