“She's A Beauty” by The Tubes

"She's a Beauty" was the Tubes' biggest chart hit, the single that carried their 1983 album Outside Inside to No. 10 on the Hot 100 and all the way to the top of the Mainstream Rock chart. It came together from unexpected quarters: singer Fee Waybill wrote it with producer David Foster, who handled most of the music and came up with the title, and hired guitarist Steve Lukather.

Behind the gleam is a seedy little story, drawn from Waybill's time in a San Francisco red light district. The video helped push it along, with Waybill playing a carnival barker while a boy rides a carnival ride.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.