“Heaven” by Warrant

"Heaven" was the second single from Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, the debut album by glam metal band Warrant, released in July 1989, and it became the biggest single they ever had, parked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and at number three on Album Rock Tracks. Jani Lane wrote it, and it wasn't new: he and drummer Steven Sweet had already recorded it in their old band Plain Jane.

Nobody at the label saw it coming. Once the song started catching on, Warrant were told to re-record it for a bigger radio sound, so the first 250,000 copies carry the original and later pressings the remake. Beau Hill produced and John Jansen mixed. The video starred Scottish model Tracy Allan and was shot at a concert at Sandstone Amphitheater in Kansas City, Kansas, and around town, with New York City scenes too.

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