Did anybody else think back in 1982 that this song was a Van Halen original, because I did ? Then again I was only 12 years old. This Roy Orbison classic was covered by Van Halen for their 1982 album Diver Down. But the parallels in design to both songs are few.
The music video had the band costumed as various warriors trying to rescue a captive woman who turns out to be a tranny. Michael Anthony (Samurai), Alex Van Halen (Tarzan), Eddie Van Halen (Western Gunslinger), and David Lee Roth (Napoleon) starred in the very first banned video by MTV due to it's opening sequence, where the bounded woman is fondled against her will by a pair of midgets.
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Ahhh, the mighty Van Halen. One of my all time favorite bands. This re-make is one of the few that is actually better than the original. Opening instrumental is actually a separate track called "Intruder".
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