Hero (Chad Kroeger song)
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| "Hero" | ||
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| Song by Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott | ||
| from the album Spider-Man (soundtrack) & Silver Side Up (In some countries) | ||
| Genre | Alternative Rock | |
| Length | 3:21 | |
| Label | Roadrunner Records | |
| Writer(s) | Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott | |
| Producer(s) | Chad Kroeger | |
| Spider-Man (soundtrack) & Silver Side Up (In some countries) track listing | ||
| "Good Times Gone" (8) (Silver Side Up) |
"Hero" (11) (Silver Side Up in some countries) |
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"Hero" is a song by Chad Kroeger, the lead singer of Nickelback, recorded in 2002 by Kroeger, Josey Scott, the lead singer of Saliva, Tyler Connolly, guitarist of Theory of a Deadman, and Matt Cameron, drummer of Pearl Jam . Its performance is generally credited in full to "Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott."
The song was featured on the soundtrack to Spider-Man, and became a cross-genre hit in the summer of 2002, reaching #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, and placing highly in the Billboard Hot 100, also winning considerable airplay at contemporary hit radio, hot adult contemporary and modern adult contemporary radio formats.
The song was the result of a collaboration between Kroeger and Scott. "I was like, 'Dude, we've got to do Spider-Man, dude. That's dope. That's going to be big,'" Scott told Yahoo!'s entertainment news service LAUNCH. "He had the idea for the song 'Hero' so I came up to Vancouver and met him. He pitched me the idea, and I was like that was pretty dope. So we sort of tweaked it, together, laid down some harmonies on it, and played everything from congas to acoustics on it."
Matt Cameron, who played drums on the track did not appear in the music video and cited family issues as the reason. He was replaced with Our Lady Peace drummer Jeremy Taggart.
Reviewing the song for NME, Imran Ahmed drew a strong comparison to "How You Remind Me", Kroeger's 2001 international breakthrough with Nickelback, calling the formula for both "Commercial grunge + MOR sensibility = Nu-MOR hit."
[edit] External links
- NME review
- "Josey Scott On Teaming With Chad Kroeger For 'Hero'" (Yahoo! LAUNCH, May 11 2002)
- "'Hero' Becomes Top Rock Track While Spider-Man Goes Gold" (Yahoo! LAUNCH, June 6 2002)
| Preceded by "Seein' Red" by Unwritten Law |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single June 8, 2002 |
Succeeded by "By the Way" by Red Hot Chili Peppers |
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