Yankee Rose (song)
| "Yankee Rose" | ||||
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| Single by David Lee Roth | ||||
| from the album Eat 'Em and Smile | ||||
| Released | June 18, 1986[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, glam metal | |||
| Length | 3:55 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | David Lee Roth, Steve Vai | |||
| Producer(s) | Ted Templeman | |||
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"Yankee Rose" is a hard rock song recorded by David Lee Roth. It was written by Roth and Steve Vai and was Roth's first single on his 1986 first full-length album Eat 'Em and Smile. It was recorded as a tribute to the Statue of Liberty in New York City,[2] as the statue was completing a major renovation for the 100th anniversary of its dedication in 1886.
The song was Roth's third Top-40 hit, the first two being covers of "California Girls" and "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody".
It also appears as a radio tune on the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the rock station "V-Rock". A cover of the song is the title song for the video game Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX performed by Teresa James.
Music video
The music video featured a prologue with a convenience store clerk observing various customers, including a newlywed couple arguing about a hotel room; a weasel-type played by Pete Angelus flanked by blonde bimbos, an obese woman screaming that her doctor says she needs to take a laxative, to which he replies, "Not in my store you don't!"; a woman he tries to hit on, as he notices she is buying breath mints; and finally, David Lee Roth in a tribal costume, who says, "Give me a bottle of anything...and a glazed doughnut...to go," and cuts to the start of the song.
See also
- Yankee Rose, the last words in The Satanic Bible written by Anton Szandor LaVey
References
- ^ "The Best" cd liner notes (1997)
- ^ ""Yankee Rose" David Lee Roth". Rollingstone.com. 1986. Retrieved 19 September 2012.