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"Kickstart My Heart" is a song by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, originally released on their 1989 album, Dr. Feelgood. Released as the album's second single in 1989, "Kickstart My Heart" reached #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States in early 1990.[5] The track has been used in various media, such as the US version of the 2001 racing video game Gran Turismo 3: A-spec, and was also included on the soundtrack album to the 2019 biographical film The Dirt and the official trailer of Battlefield 2042 remixed by 2WEI.[6]

"Kickstart My Heart"
Single by Mötley Crüe
from the album Dr. Feelgood
B-side	"She Goes Down"
Released	November 20, 1989
Genre	Glam metal[1][2][3][4]
Length	4:48
Label	Elektra
Songwriter(s)	Nikki Sixx
Producer(s)	Bob Rock
Mötley Crüe singles chronology
"Dr. Feelgood" (1989) "Kickstart My Heart" (1989) "Without You" (1990)
Music videos
"Kickstart My Heart" on YouTube

Background

In a 2015 interview, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx related the origins of "Kickstart My Heart,” which he wrote while the band was already working on Dr. Feelgood. Sixx was playing acoustic guitar in his house while scribbling words on a piece of paper. When the group’s former manager read the words, he encouraged Sixx to share it with the rest of the band. Sixx was reluctant, but eventually did show the band and the track came together quickly.[7] The phrase "kickstart my heart" supposedly refers to Sixx's overdose incident where a paramedic injected his heart with adrenaline; Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler disputes the accuracy of the story, saying he revived Sixx before the paramedics arrived.[8] The introduction is a classic example of a Floyd Rose bridge trick, in which Mick Mars drops three consecutive strings resulting in sound similar to a motorcycle shifting gears. The song's ending features a prominent example of talkbox effects.

Music video

1989 video

The video clip was shot at the Whisky a Go Go on October 5, 1989 during Mötley Crüe's warm-up show before embarking on the Dr. Feelgood world tour. Sam Kinison is featured at the start of the video chauffeuring the band to the Whisky in a 1946 Buick ambulance.

As part of their cross-promotion with the Mötley Crüe Final Tour and to celebrate the song's 25th anniversary in 2014, Dodge remixed the music video, replacing some of the action scenes with footage of Dodge's performance cars on the track.[9]

2011 video

In 2011 Mötley Crüe made a new video for the song which included multiple clips from their U.S. tour with Poison and New York Dolls. Soon after the band issued the following statement: "We documented the whole tour, top to bottom (the good, the bad and the ugly) and as we were looking through all the amazing footage, we thought how cool it would be to cut together a 'best of visual' for the fans who made this tour happen. This one is just for the fans, from us."

In other media

"Kickstart My Heart" appeared in the opening montage of Hockey Night in Canada's coverage of Game 1 of the second round series of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames, whose games against each other are a rivalry known as the "Battle of Alberta".[10] Many clips in the montage showed highlights of the two teams' games from the 1980s, as the song was released in the 1980s and the rivalry was at its fever pitch during that span, with the Oilers and Flames both enjoying a lot of success during that decade. In the 1980s, the Oilers won the Stanley Cup in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988, coupled with an additional Stanley Cup Finals appearance in 1983, while the Flames won the Stanley Cup in the song's release year of 1989 in addition to appearing in the 1986 Stanley Cup Finals. Game 1 of the 2022 playoff series between the two teams was won by the Flames by a score of 9–6, but the Oilers went on to win the next four games consecutively to advance to the Western Conference Finals.

Personnel

• Vince Neil – vocals
• Mick Mars – guitars
• Nikki Sixx – bass
• Tommy Lee – drums

Charts

Chart (1989–1990)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[11]	34
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[12]	31
US Billboard Hot 100[13]	27
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[14]	18

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)[15]	6
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[16]	9
UK Rock & Metal (OCC)[17]	17

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[18]	Silver	200,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Music video on YouTube

На других языках

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[de] Kickstart My Heart

Kickstart My Heart ist ein Lied der US-amerikanischen Glam-Metal-Band Mötley Crüe aus ihrem fünften Studioalbum Dr. Feelgood. Der Song, der zu ihren bekanntesten zählt, wurde als zweite Single am 20. November 1989 ausgekoppelt.

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- [en] Kickstart My Heart

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[es] Kickstart My Heart

«Kickstart My Heart» es un sencillo del grupo de heavy metal Mötley Crüe, nominada a los premios Grammy. Es considerada como la canción más famosa e insignia de la banda. Salió originalmente en su quinto álbum de estudio de 1989 llamado Dr. Feelgood. La canción fue escrita por Nikki Sixx acerca de su famosa sobredosis en la cual fue declarado clínicamente muerto antes de ser reanimado con dos dosis de adrenalina en el corazón. Su sobredosis se dio en 1987 cuando Mötley Crüe salió de gira junto a Guns N' Roses. La misma tuvo lugar en el cuarto de hotel del mítico guitarrista de los Guns, Slash, aunque este no tuvo que ver con la situación de Nikki.

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