Hi, Koryimran, and welcome to the discussion boards!
"Nowhere Fast" is an old favorite of mine. Like you said, it's from the movie "Streets of Fire", and was written by Jim Steinman; in fact, Steinman mined bits of it (like the "godspeed" part) for other songs. (And yes, o my prereaders, this is where the "godspeed" reference in the chapter 14 notes comes from.)
Steinman is always a great choice for Doug's "power songs". His "rock'n'roll Wagner" style is just so right for Doug. In fact, I was going to use the other Steinman song from "Streets of Fire", "Tonight is What It Means to be Young", in the never-to-be-finished Drunkard's Walk I.
Just as a little added tidbit, here's some Steinman-related background from Warriors' World... (I may have mentioned this here once before, but I'm not sure).
In the real world, Steinman was approached by Andrew Lloyd-Webber to cowrite The Phantom of the Opera, but had to turn it down because he'd already committed to working with Def Leppard during the same timeframe. In Warriors' World, he ended up collaborating with Lloyd-Webber instead of producing Def Leppard. (It's a very different Phantom that's running on Broadway and in London there.) Anyway, they worked together in London, and naturally saw lots of local coverage of the Warriors, including the songs Doug used. Which included equal numbers of Steinman songs and Lloyd-Webber show tunes.
The two of them now have a private, good-natured rivalry/challenge: to see who can write the most super-powers for Doug in the course of their "usual" activities. It's not public knowledge, it's only between them. They use a news service to keep a tally on what songs Doug uses, and at the end of every year, the one with fewer songs in Doug's repertoire has to buy a round of drinks at a bar of the other's choosing.
As of Doug's departure from WW in 1998, Steinman was in the lead, mainly because he works on many smaller projects while Lloyd-Webber works on larger and longer scales. The latter has some plans, though, to catch up...
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
"Nowhere Fast" is an old favorite of mine. Like you said, it's from the movie "Streets of Fire", and was written by Jim Steinman; in fact, Steinman mined bits of it (like the "godspeed" part) for other songs. (And yes, o my prereaders, this is where the "godspeed" reference in the chapter 14 notes comes from.)
Steinman is always a great choice for Doug's "power songs". His "rock'n'roll Wagner" style is just so right for Doug. In fact, I was going to use the other Steinman song from "Streets of Fire", "Tonight is What It Means to be Young", in the never-to-be-finished Drunkard's Walk I.
Just as a little added tidbit, here's some Steinman-related background from Warriors' World... (I may have mentioned this here once before, but I'm not sure).
In the real world, Steinman was approached by Andrew Lloyd-Webber to cowrite The Phantom of the Opera, but had to turn it down because he'd already committed to working with Def Leppard during the same timeframe. In Warriors' World, he ended up collaborating with Lloyd-Webber instead of producing Def Leppard. (It's a very different Phantom that's running on Broadway and in London there.) Anyway, they worked together in London, and naturally saw lots of local coverage of the Warriors, including the songs Doug used. Which included equal numbers of Steinman songs and Lloyd-Webber show tunes.
The two of them now have a private, good-natured rivalry/challenge: to see who can write the most super-powers for Doug in the course of their "usual" activities. It's not public knowledge, it's only between them. They use a news service to keep a tally on what songs Doug uses, and at the end of every year, the one with fewer songs in Doug's repertoire has to buy a round of drinks at a bar of the other's choosing.
As of Doug's departure from WW in 1998, Steinman was in the lead, mainly because he works on many smaller projects while Lloyd-Webber works on larger and longer scales. The latter has some plans, though, to catch up...
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.