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It was one of the most powerful and romantic songs of the decade.
Show Me Heaven peaked at the top of the UK charts in 1990
and provided the [G] perfect soundtrack for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder.
Well now the singer behind that song is putting her powerful voice behind a new project.
[Db] It's the movie that brought Tom Cruise [G] and Nicole [Bb] Kidman together.
I thought you weren't going to watch.
[C] Not only did Days of Thunders get our hearts racing,
[Ab] it also delivered one of the [Bbm] best movie soundtracks [Db] of the 90s.
[Eb]
[Ab] [Db]
The film's theme song, [Eb] Show Me Heaven, became [Ab] one of the most famous [Bbm] and romantic ballads [Db] of the decade.
[Eb]
[Ab]
[Db] The song by Maria McKee [Eb] topped the UK charts in [C] 1990
[Dbm] and set the singer up for a career in the spotlight.
I do [E] more to make [A] you smile, come to [Am] me child.
[E] These days, McKee has swapped the recording studio for film,
spending time both behind and in front of the [Gm] camera.
And Maria McKee joins us now live [Eb] from Los Angeles.
Welcome to the show, [G] good to have you with us.
Now Show Me Heaven, oh it's a [Dm] pleasure.
That was actually, [Eb] there's quite an interesting story behind this song
[E] and apparently you were asked to originally record something different
and then you [N] said no I don't want to do it and they gave you 24 hours to go away and write a new song.
What happened?
No, [Ebm] the melody was great, [G] but the lyrics were [Db] appalling.
It was something like, secret [Cm] fire, take me higher, [G] my desire, you know.
[Db] And [G] I said I can't sing those words, [Ab] please give me a shot at [Db] writing new lyrics.
And they [Ab] basically [Eb] said, okay well you have [Ab] 24 hours and if we don't approve,
you're going to have [Db] to sing secret fire, take me higher, my desire.
[Ab] [Eb] So [Ab] I went away, I was [Bbm] living in [Db] Ireland at the time and I [Eb] furiously wrote those [Ab] lyrics out.
[Bb] And [Db] they said, oh yeah, cool, okay, [Eb] good enough, Show Me Heaven.
[Ab] It [Db] has a very 90s music video, sweeping cameras, [Eb] wind machines, [G] was it fun to make the clip?
Oh [F] yeah, it was great.
It [G] was a really magical time in my life.
[Em] I was living over in Ireland and [Eb] going on top of the pops, [Fm] it was a dream come true.
[Db] I was very young and it was a blast.
[Eb] It was a really [Ab] great time to be [Db] out there singing.
Is it true that for [Ab] 16 years you [Eb] didn't sing the [Ab] song?
You know, I [Db] didn't sing it live as much because [Eb] I started out in a [Ab] rock band when I was a [Db] teenager.
It was a sort of a post-punk, alternative [Eb] country band.
[Ab] And then I had a solo career as a singer-songwriter.
[Db]
And my [Eb] fans didn't really [Ab] expect to hear a big sort of power ballad in the set.
They wanted to hear my original album [Eb] material.
[Ab] So I was very responsible to [Db] my fans at the time.
[Eb] I [Ab] would trot it out occasionally [Fm]
for one-offs, TV shows and stuff like [Db] that.
But it wasn't really a part of my live show.
[Cm] And then when [Ab] I performed at Gay Pride in Dublin about [Db] six or seven years ago and they [Eb] asked me to sing it.
I [Ab] think that was the first time I brought it back [Bbm] out and now [Db] I've been singing it ever since.
Hey, Maria, [Eb] do you think that the [Ab] big power ballads are missing from films and soundtracks these [Eb] days?
I don't know if they're missing.
I [G] just think tastes have changed.
It's very much a sound of a certain era.
[Eb]
And [G] it was great then and [Db] it's fun for [G]
a nostalgic kick.
To listen to that, it takes you right back to that time, to [Eb] that era.
Yeah, [G]
absolutely.
It takes you back instantly, doesn't it?
The 90s.
You are now starring and working on some independent films.
What do you prefer, in front of the camera [N] or behind the microphone?
Well, my husband and I, he's a filmmaker [G] and so we work together producing these small films that we make in our studio in L.A.
[E] And music is very much a part [D] of the filmmaking.
The [G] films are very music-driven and I sing sometimes [A] actually on screen in the films.
So I get to [D] do a bit of both [C] and I think it would be [Ab] a shame [G] not to.
However, the film that we're working on now, he's written for [N] me and it's a non-singing role.
And so far I haven't sung on film at [G] all in it yet.
So who knows?
It might be, you know, my fans will just have to be satisfied to hear me talk.
Or maybe you could go back to the
I don't know.
They're going to react to that.
Go back to the post-punk or country stuff, Maria.
That's what it sounds like, a really cool sound.
Maria, thank you so much for sharing your memories with us today.
Thank you so [N] much.
This was great.
Talk to you again.
Thanks, Maria.
Okay.
Show Me Heaven peaked at the top of the UK charts in 1990
and provided the [G] perfect soundtrack for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder.
Well now the singer behind that song is putting her powerful voice behind a new project.
[Db] It's the movie that brought Tom Cruise [G] and Nicole [Bb] Kidman together.
I thought you weren't going to watch.
[C] Not only did Days of Thunders get our hearts racing,
[Ab] it also delivered one of the [Bbm] best movie soundtracks [Db] of the 90s.
[Eb]
[Ab] [Db]
The film's theme song, [Eb] Show Me Heaven, became [Ab] one of the most famous [Bbm] and romantic ballads [Db] of the decade.
[Eb]
[Ab]
[Db] The song by Maria McKee [Eb] topped the UK charts in [C] 1990
[Dbm] and set the singer up for a career in the spotlight.
I do [E] more to make [A] you smile, come to [Am] me child.
[E] These days, McKee has swapped the recording studio for film,
spending time both behind and in front of the [Gm] camera.
And Maria McKee joins us now live [Eb] from Los Angeles.
Welcome to the show, [G] good to have you with us.
Now Show Me Heaven, oh it's a [Dm] pleasure.
That was actually, [Eb] there's quite an interesting story behind this song
[E] and apparently you were asked to originally record something different
and then you [N] said no I don't want to do it and they gave you 24 hours to go away and write a new song.
What happened?
No, [Ebm] the melody was great, [G] but the lyrics were [Db] appalling.
It was something like, secret [Cm] fire, take me higher, [G] my desire, you know.
[Db] And [G] I said I can't sing those words, [Ab] please give me a shot at [Db] writing new lyrics.
And they [Ab] basically [Eb] said, okay well you have [Ab] 24 hours and if we don't approve,
you're going to have [Db] to sing secret fire, take me higher, my desire.
[Ab] [Eb] So [Ab] I went away, I was [Bbm] living in [Db] Ireland at the time and I [Eb] furiously wrote those [Ab] lyrics out.
[Bb] And [Db] they said, oh yeah, cool, okay, [Eb] good enough, Show Me Heaven.
[Ab] It [Db] has a very 90s music video, sweeping cameras, [Eb] wind machines, [G] was it fun to make the clip?
Oh [F] yeah, it was great.
It [G] was a really magical time in my life.
[Em] I was living over in Ireland and [Eb] going on top of the pops, [Fm] it was a dream come true.
[Db] I was very young and it was a blast.
[Eb] It was a really [Ab] great time to be [Db] out there singing.
Is it true that for [Ab] 16 years you [Eb] didn't sing the [Ab] song?
You know, I [Db] didn't sing it live as much because [Eb] I started out in a [Ab] rock band when I was a [Db] teenager.
It was a sort of a post-punk, alternative [Eb] country band.
[Ab] And then I had a solo career as a singer-songwriter.
[Db]
And my [Eb] fans didn't really [Ab] expect to hear a big sort of power ballad in the set.
They wanted to hear my original album [Eb] material.
[Ab] So I was very responsible to [Db] my fans at the time.
[Eb] I [Ab] would trot it out occasionally [Fm]
for one-offs, TV shows and stuff like [Db] that.
But it wasn't really a part of my live show.
[Cm] And then when [Ab] I performed at Gay Pride in Dublin about [Db] six or seven years ago and they [Eb] asked me to sing it.
I [Ab] think that was the first time I brought it back [Bbm] out and now [Db] I've been singing it ever since.
Hey, Maria, [Eb] do you think that the [Ab] big power ballads are missing from films and soundtracks these [Eb] days?
I don't know if they're missing.
I [G] just think tastes have changed.
It's very much a sound of a certain era.
[Eb]
And [G] it was great then and [Db] it's fun for [G]
a nostalgic kick.
To listen to that, it takes you right back to that time, to [Eb] that era.
Yeah, [G]
absolutely.
It takes you back instantly, doesn't it?
The 90s.
You are now starring and working on some independent films.
What do you prefer, in front of the camera [N] or behind the microphone?
Well, my husband and I, he's a filmmaker [G] and so we work together producing these small films that we make in our studio in L.A.
[E] And music is very much a part [D] of the filmmaking.
The [G] films are very music-driven and I sing sometimes [A] actually on screen in the films.
So I get to [D] do a bit of both [C] and I think it would be [Ab] a shame [G] not to.
However, the film that we're working on now, he's written for [N] me and it's a non-singing role.
And so far I haven't sung on film at [G] all in it yet.
So who knows?
It might be, you know, my fans will just have to be satisfied to hear me talk.
Or maybe you could go back to the
I don't know.
They're going to react to that.
Go back to the post-punk or country stuff, Maria.
That's what it sounds like, a really cool sound.
Maria, thank you so much for sharing your memories with us today.
Thank you so [N] much.
This was great.
Talk to you again.
Thanks, Maria.
Okay.
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_ _ _ It was one of the most powerful and romantic songs of the decade.
Show Me Heaven peaked at the top of the UK charts in 1990
and provided the [G] perfect soundtrack for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder.
Well now the singer behind that song is putting her powerful voice behind a new project.
_ [Db] _ It's the movie that brought Tom Cruise [G] and Nicole [Bb] Kidman together.
I thought you weren't going to watch. _
_ _ [C] _ Not only did Days of Thunders get our hearts racing,
[Ab] it also delivered one of the [Bbm] best movie soundtracks [Db] of the 90s.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ The film's theme song, [Eb] Show Me Heaven, became [Ab] one of the most famous [Bbm] and romantic ballads [Db] of the decade.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[Db] The song by Maria McKee [Eb] topped the UK charts in [C] 1990
[Dbm] and set the singer up for a career in the spotlight.
I do [E] more to make [A] you smile, _ _ come to [Am] me child. _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ These days, McKee has swapped the recording studio for film,
spending time both behind and in front of the [Gm] camera. _
And Maria McKee joins us now live [Eb] from Los Angeles.
Welcome to the show, [G] good to have you with us.
Now Show Me Heaven, oh it's a [Dm] pleasure.
That was actually, [Eb] there's quite an interesting story behind this song
[E] and apparently you were asked to originally record something different
and then you [N] said no I don't want to do it and they gave you 24 hours to go away and write a new song.
What happened? _
No, [Ebm] the melody was great, _ [G] but the lyrics were [Db] appalling.
It was something like, secret [Cm] fire, take me higher, [G] my desire, you know.
_ [Db] And [G] I said I can't sing those words, [Ab] please give me a shot at [Db] writing new lyrics.
_ And they [Ab] basically [Eb] said, okay well you have [Ab] 24 hours and if we don't approve,
you're going to have [Db] to sing secret fire, take me higher, my desire.
[Ab] _ [Eb] _ So [Ab] _ I went away, I was [Bbm] living in [Db] Ireland at the time and _ I [Eb] furiously wrote those [Ab] lyrics out.
_ [Bb] And [Db] they said, oh yeah, cool, okay, [Eb] good enough, Show Me Heaven. _
[Ab] _ It [Db] has a very 90s music video, sweeping cameras, [Eb] wind machines, [G] was it fun to make the clip?
_ Oh [F] yeah, it was great.
It [G] was a really magical time in my life.
[Em] I was living over in Ireland _ and [Eb] _ _ going on top of the pops, [Fm] it was a dream come true.
[Db] I was very young _ and it was a blast.
[Eb] It was a really [Ab] great time to be [Db] _ out there singing.
Is it true that for [Ab] 16 years you [Eb] didn't sing the [Ab] song?
_ _ _ You know, I [Db] didn't sing it live as much because [Eb] I started out in a [Ab] rock band when I was a [Db] teenager.
It was a sort of a post-punk, alternative [Eb] country _ band.
[Ab] And then I had a solo career as a singer-songwriter.
[Db] _
_ And my [Eb] fans didn't really [Ab] expect to hear a big sort of power ballad in the set.
They wanted to hear my original album [Eb] material.
[Ab] So I was very responsible to [Db] my fans at the time.
[Eb] I _ [Ab] would _ trot it out occasionally _ _ [Fm]
for one-offs, TV shows and stuff like [Db] that.
But it wasn't really a part of my live show. _
[Cm] _ And then when [Ab] I performed at Gay Pride in Dublin about [Db] six or seven years ago and they [Eb] asked me to sing it.
I [Ab] think that was the first time I brought it back [Bbm] out and now [Db] I've been singing it ever since.
Hey, Maria, [Eb] do you think that the [Ab] big power ballads are missing from films and soundtracks these [Eb] days?
I _ _ don't know if they're missing.
I [G] just think tastes have changed.
_ _ It's very much a sound of a certain era.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _
And [G] it was great then and [Db] it's fun for [G]
a nostalgic kick.
_ To listen to that, it takes you right back to that time, to [Eb] that era.
Yeah, [G]
absolutely.
It takes you back instantly, doesn't it?
The 90s. _
You are now starring and working on some independent films.
What do you prefer, in front of the camera [N] or behind the microphone? _ _ _
_ Well, my _ husband and I, _ _ he's a filmmaker [G] and so we work together producing these small films that we make in our studio in L.A.
[E] And _ music is very much a part [D] of the filmmaking.
_ _ The [G] films are very music-driven and I sing sometimes [A] actually on screen in the films.
_ So I get to [D] do a bit of both [C] and I think it would be [Ab] a shame [G] not to.
_ However, the film that we're working on now, he's written for [N] me and it's a non-singing role.
_ And so far I haven't sung on film at [G] all in it yet.
So who knows?
It _ might be, you know, _ my fans will just have to be satisfied to hear me talk.
Or maybe you could go back to the_
I don't know.
They're going to react to that.
_ Go back to the post-punk or country stuff, Maria.
That's what it sounds like, a really cool sound.
Maria, thank you so much for sharing your memories with us today.
Thank you so [N] much.
This was great.
_ Talk to you again.
Thanks, Maria.
_ Okay.
Show Me Heaven peaked at the top of the UK charts in 1990
and provided the [G] perfect soundtrack for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Days of Thunder.
Well now the singer behind that song is putting her powerful voice behind a new project.
_ [Db] _ It's the movie that brought Tom Cruise [G] and Nicole [Bb] Kidman together.
I thought you weren't going to watch. _
_ _ [C] _ Not only did Days of Thunders get our hearts racing,
[Ab] it also delivered one of the [Bbm] best movie soundtracks [Db] of the 90s.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ The film's theme song, [Eb] Show Me Heaven, became [Ab] one of the most famous [Bbm] and romantic ballads [Db] of the decade.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[Db] The song by Maria McKee [Eb] topped the UK charts in [C] 1990
[Dbm] and set the singer up for a career in the spotlight.
I do [E] more to make [A] you smile, _ _ come to [Am] me child. _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ These days, McKee has swapped the recording studio for film,
spending time both behind and in front of the [Gm] camera. _
And Maria McKee joins us now live [Eb] from Los Angeles.
Welcome to the show, [G] good to have you with us.
Now Show Me Heaven, oh it's a [Dm] pleasure.
That was actually, [Eb] there's quite an interesting story behind this song
[E] and apparently you were asked to originally record something different
and then you [N] said no I don't want to do it and they gave you 24 hours to go away and write a new song.
What happened? _
No, [Ebm] the melody was great, _ [G] but the lyrics were [Db] appalling.
It was something like, secret [Cm] fire, take me higher, [G] my desire, you know.
_ [Db] And [G] I said I can't sing those words, [Ab] please give me a shot at [Db] writing new lyrics.
_ And they [Ab] basically [Eb] said, okay well you have [Ab] 24 hours and if we don't approve,
you're going to have [Db] to sing secret fire, take me higher, my desire.
[Ab] _ [Eb] _ So [Ab] _ I went away, I was [Bbm] living in [Db] Ireland at the time and _ I [Eb] furiously wrote those [Ab] lyrics out.
_ [Bb] And [Db] they said, oh yeah, cool, okay, [Eb] good enough, Show Me Heaven. _
[Ab] _ It [Db] has a very 90s music video, sweeping cameras, [Eb] wind machines, [G] was it fun to make the clip?
_ Oh [F] yeah, it was great.
It [G] was a really magical time in my life.
[Em] I was living over in Ireland _ and [Eb] _ _ going on top of the pops, [Fm] it was a dream come true.
[Db] I was very young _ and it was a blast.
[Eb] It was a really [Ab] great time to be [Db] _ out there singing.
Is it true that for [Ab] 16 years you [Eb] didn't sing the [Ab] song?
_ _ _ You know, I [Db] didn't sing it live as much because [Eb] I started out in a [Ab] rock band when I was a [Db] teenager.
It was a sort of a post-punk, alternative [Eb] country _ band.
[Ab] And then I had a solo career as a singer-songwriter.
[Db] _
_ And my [Eb] fans didn't really [Ab] expect to hear a big sort of power ballad in the set.
They wanted to hear my original album [Eb] material.
[Ab] So I was very responsible to [Db] my fans at the time.
[Eb] I _ [Ab] would _ trot it out occasionally _ _ [Fm]
for one-offs, TV shows and stuff like [Db] that.
But it wasn't really a part of my live show. _
[Cm] _ And then when [Ab] I performed at Gay Pride in Dublin about [Db] six or seven years ago and they [Eb] asked me to sing it.
I [Ab] think that was the first time I brought it back [Bbm] out and now [Db] I've been singing it ever since.
Hey, Maria, [Eb] do you think that the [Ab] big power ballads are missing from films and soundtracks these [Eb] days?
I _ _ don't know if they're missing.
I [G] just think tastes have changed.
_ _ It's very much a sound of a certain era.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _
And [G] it was great then and [Db] it's fun for [G]
a nostalgic kick.
_ To listen to that, it takes you right back to that time, to [Eb] that era.
Yeah, [G]
absolutely.
It takes you back instantly, doesn't it?
The 90s. _
You are now starring and working on some independent films.
What do you prefer, in front of the camera [N] or behind the microphone? _ _ _
_ Well, my _ husband and I, _ _ he's a filmmaker [G] and so we work together producing these small films that we make in our studio in L.A.
[E] And _ music is very much a part [D] of the filmmaking.
_ _ The [G] films are very music-driven and I sing sometimes [A] actually on screen in the films.
_ So I get to [D] do a bit of both [C] and I think it would be [Ab] a shame [G] not to.
_ However, the film that we're working on now, he's written for [N] me and it's a non-singing role.
_ And so far I haven't sung on film at [G] all in it yet.
So who knows?
It _ might be, you know, _ my fans will just have to be satisfied to hear me talk.
Or maybe you could go back to the_
I don't know.
They're going to react to that.
_ Go back to the post-punk or country stuff, Maria.
That's what it sounds like, a really cool sound.
Maria, thank you so much for sharing your memories with us today.
Thank you so [N] much.
This was great.
_ Talk to you again.
Thanks, Maria.
_ Okay.