“Shelter Me” by Cinderella

"Shelter Me" led the way for Heartbreak Station, Cinderella's third album, in 1990, and it's Tom Keifer's show from top to bottom: he wrote it, sings it, plays electric guitar alongside Jeff LaBar and co-produced it with John Jansen. It's a bluesy strut, and the credits show a band reaching well past guitars, bass and drums, with Jay Davidson on saxophone, Rod Roddy on piano, Bashiri Johnson adding percussion to Fred Coury's kit, and Elaine Foster, Sharon Foster and Tara Pellerin singing backup alongside Coury. Eric Brittingham plays bass.

The video is a cameo parade, with Little Richard, Shelley Duvall, Pamela Anderson, Dweezil Zappa and Harry Shearer all dropping by, and The New York Times later named it one of 15 essential hair-metal videos. On the Hot 100 it got as high as number 36.

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