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powlov (The Power of Love)Between cross-country martial arts collaborative works and children's USA TV programming, Pop Tap Beat's set-in as a modern Taiko Drum Master in the likes of exclusive Western media representation grows stronger and stronger as its irregularly-scheguled updates roll by... and since July of 2 years ago, we can also check off another popular movie getting its official Taiko representation, in song form!
What we have today is the theme song from 1985's highest-grossing movie worldwide: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's Back To The Future, telling the story of the family-background-troubled Marthy McFly as he accidentally gets stranded back in time of 30 years thanks to a car-based invention from his professor friend Emmett "Doc" Brown, trying to find his way back to present time while also undoing the crush he accidentally caused on her would-be mother, potentially erasing his family prospect (not to mention himself!) out of existence. The movie's idea came to Zemeckis a full 5 years prior to release but only got funding granted after securing a deal upon his directorial role on the comedy flick Romancing the Stone in 1984.
Strong of over 380 million dollars at the boxoffice and the accolades it received (Academy, Hugo and 3 Saturn awards), movie sequel plans were pushed by Universal onto its writers for years, who only obliged in 1987 upon the prospect of the sequel project being handed down to different writers; the resulting script became so long that it was split in two movies -Back To The Future Part II (1989) and Part III (1990)- which were filmed back-to-back. After that, a handful of project inspired by the source film would surface in the coming decade: an animated series for CBS (1991-1992), a 30th-anniversary movie starring Emmett Brown (2015's Doc Brown Saves the World) and an English theather musical by the same name, premiering at the Manchester Opera House in the year 2020.
For the 1985 movie's theme song, both Zemeckis and Gale have approached the headliner of the San Francisco-based rock band Huey Lewis and the News, based on the eponymous art name of lead singer/harmonica player Hugh Anthony Cregg III. Lewis was told that BttF's main theme should be sounding like if it came out of Marthy McFly's "favourite band" and while flattered for the compliment, he was resisting at first as he didn't know how to make the score for a movie and didn't want to make something blandly titled "Back to the Future" or something of the likes. That attitude undertook a 180 once Zemeckis gave the musician free reign on whatever he wanted to write with his band for the movie, leading to its second submission -The Power of Love- to be picked up, together with another song for the overall score that would eventually be known as "Back In Time". Respecting the same musician's "uncredited and disguised" clauses, they even managed to have Huey Lewis cameo in the movie, as the judge in the Battle of Bands scene!
The charting approach for The Power Of Love feels a trip back in time in of itself, considering how monocluster-dominant charting for slow-flowing songs was THE standard of 2nd-gen Taiko charting. Put your worries to rest on special markers' presence though- you'll see a few of those near the end!
