“32 Pennies” by Warrant

Jani Lane wrote "32 Pennies" by himself, words and music, for Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, the debut album from Warrant. Beau Hill produced the record at The Enterprise in Burbank, California, engineering it and chipping in keyboards and backing vocals along the way, and John Jansen mixed this track.

The album is Sunset Strip glam metal through and through, all heavy guitars and sticky, melodic choruses, and its road to the racks was a rough one. During the recording Lane caught his girlfriend with his best friend and suffered a nervous breakdown, and the release was pushed back several months while he recovered. Once it finally hit the shelves, "Heaven", "Down Boys" and "Sometimes She Cries" were the hits, and Lane later turned that betrayal into "I Saw Red" on the next album, Cherry Pie.

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