Coming up, an interview with the band Animotion, which was somehow a one-hit wonder TWICE. In 1985 they released Obsession, a song that had a killer hook that will be in your head for days and that’s a GOOD thing. Obsession Blew up the top 10 and then a few years later principals Astrid Plane and Bill Wadhams were FIRED and replaced with another duo. And they had a top 10 hit in 1989 only to break up soon after. Find out what happened and how in the end the original group had the last laugh in a compelling interview with Astrid Plane and Bill Wadhams next on Professor of Rock.
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it’s time for another edition of our show Bottled Lightening In the past we’ve featured many one hit scorchers on here, but Bottled Lightening is truly about how a band created a universal song that rose like a comet.. and some of our choices aren’t exactly one hit wonders. recently we’ve been covering one album warriors who had an album with 2 or 3 big hits and then disappeared. Well, what about a band that had a massive hit and then a minor hit and then got fired and with an entirely new lineup hit the top 10 again?
This is exactly what happened with the synth-pop group Animation. They hit #6 in 1985 with their hook-laden classic Obsession. The band formed in 1983 with singer Astrid Plane Bassist Charles Ottavio, Keyboardist Paul Anotnelli, and Drummer David French O’brian former members of a retro sci-fi band called Red Zone combined with Bill Wadhams from the Billy Bond band. They called the new band Animotion with Wadhams and Plane co-fronting it.
Then they brought in lead guitarist Don Kirkpatrick and they started recording. Obsession was written by British actor Michael De Barres and Songwriters Hall of Famer Holly Knight who wrote tons of hits for Aerosmith, Tina Turner and Pat Benatar to name but a few. Micheal Des Barres was at that time recovering from a heroin addiction So the title of the song was very familiar to him. But instead of writing a song about drugs, he decide on love A few line in the song were inspired by a movie he’d just watched called the Collector, about a man who kidnaps a pretty girl. The line, "Like a butterfly, a wild butterfly, I will collect you and Holly Knight came up with the bass rhythm in the song and they were off to the races from there.
The two of them actually cut a version of the song first for the movie A Night in Heaven. Animotion took the song to #6 in early 85 with its irresistible synth line. It also went top 5 in the UK and charted twice on the dance charts once in 84 and then again in 86. Animotion had another hit called Let Him Go which went to #39. Another semi-hit called I Engineer, written again by Holly Knight along ...
