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“House of Broken Love” by Great White
From the album …Twice Shy (1989)
“House of Broken Love” by Great White appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1989 on the album …Twice Shy. Its best result is #273 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,279 hard rock song of all time.
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"House of Broken Love" sits eighth on ...Twice Shy, the fourth Great White album, which Capitol released in 1989, and its title came out of real-life heartbreak. Jack Russell was fresh from a divorce and hanging out with guitarist Mark Kendall, himself newly single, when their manager strolled in and wondered aloud whether this was the house of broken love. On the BBC's Friday Rock Show, Russell later explained that it's about loneliness.
Russell wrote it with Michael Lardie and Alan Niven, who produced it together. It's a heart-on-sleeve lament, Russell out front with Kendall and Lardie on guitars, Lardie adding keyboards, Tony Montana on bass and Audie Desbrow on drums. It climbed to 7 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and 83 on the Hot 100, and the band played it at the American Music Awards of 1990.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 273 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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