Coming up, it’s the story of two musicians who achieved global success both as songwriters and band members. They also happened to be romantically involved. You can credit them with two #1 Hot 100 hits for one of the biggest stars in the industry, How Will I Know and I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and another massive hit for themselves Waiting for a Star to Fall, a feel-good 80s staple, has become a sleeper classic. It’s catchy, it’s upbeat, and guaranteed to elevate your mood… Only, behind the scenes, this track has a much different story. While working on the song and their album, this couple couldn’t even look each other in the eyes. Their relationship was completely falling apart. Making for a bitter contrast to one of the most energetic 80s hit you’ll ever hear. So… would their crumbling relationship ruin everything they had worked for? Or would the stars once again align for them as the decade faded? the answer is next on Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day. Here honor artists and bands that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some ‘one-hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightning in a bottle. On previous episodes we have covered Wishing Well by Terrance Trent D’Arby, She Drive Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals, and Hands to Heaven by Breathe. Today's song is one of those ditty that you might not immediately admit you love but deep down you do. There’s just something joyful and lifting in it. It’s been used recently in a KZread video that went viral a few years back that is a celebration of the 80s because it kind of epitomizes that feeling of the neon decade so well. It was a Top 5 hit and has over 150 million combined streams on KZread and Spotify actually surpassing the songs that kept it out of #1… This song was written by a songwriting couple who are also credited with two #1 hits for another 80s icon. The song? the 80s feel-good classic ‘Waiting for a Star to Fall’ by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, aka Boy Meets Girl.
But there’s also a bit of a mystery surrounding this Bottled Lightning duo. You would think that with multiple chart-topping hits to their name, they would be a hot commodity. And you could expect plenty more where that came from. And yet Boy Meets Girl as a band and as songwriters inexplicably vanished from mainstream music. So what happened? Let’s get into it and figure this one out.