JOHN DIVA & THE ROCKETS OF LOVE kick off 2024 with a video for the track “Back In The Days” from their current album, The Big Easy. A new year, a new song, and a perfect radio hit, this new single is a melancholy hymn to youth. “Back in the Days” hearkens to a long-lost love and to the unshakeable loyalty of an oath almost forgotten in everyday adult life. Almost…
“Back In The Days” is (of course) a tribute to the music of the eighties, even if the sound and vocals are produced in a much more modern way. Thematically, JOHN DIVA dives deep into the most popular decade of all time, taking to it like a fish to water.
“Remember eighty-something…” he sings at the beginning of every verse. And indeed, everyone has colorful memories of that decade, whether they were there or not. At times it seems almost impossible to distinguish memory from cliché – or from a story that everyone (maybe even your big brother) has perhaps told or experienced.
Watch the video for “Back in The Days” HERE:
“The day you got your first car, you took me swimming in the raw.”
In the 80s, musical visions only imagined came alive before our eyes as MTV would broadcast Rock’n’Roll clichés into the bedrooms of teen lovers around the globe. DIVA skillfully plays with these images in “Back In The Days” when he sings: “Back in the days, around the campfire, two lost souls living on the run” and almost everyone can feel the brush of this teenage romance that JOHN tells as if it were his own. Perhaps it was…
“The day your mother found out, was the day my father kicked me out.”
Like the great storyteller he is, DIVA weaves a narrative structure around the song’s two protagonists who have long since grown up. He sings of them listening to this song separately on the other side of the world from each other, remembering a time when everything was before them. A time when one song, like those written to perfection by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Phil Lynott, and Brian Adams, meant the world and felt like it could change everything.
Today, JOHN DIVA & THE ROCKETS OF LOVE deliver a new classic. Go ahead and add it to your collection and dream on, teenage lovers. It’s a new year, it’s an old dream!
Download and Stream The Big Easy HERE:
The Big Easy Track List:
01 – California Rhapsody 0:53
02 – The Big Easy 3:45
03 – God Made Radio 3:55
04 – Runaway Train 4:46
05 – Thunder 4:02
06 – Believe 4:34
07 – Back In The Days 3:54
08 – Hit And Run 4:40
09 – Boys Don’t Play With Dolls 3:38
10 – The Limit Is The Sky 4:35
11 – Capri Style 4:13
12 – Wild At Heart 4:08
The Big Easy is available worldwide in the following formats:
-CD DigiPak
-LP Gatefold version
-CD/LP bundle with shirt (only at the Steamhammer Shop)
-Download / Stream HERE
JOHN DIVA & THE ROCKETS OF LOVE Live 2023
16.06. DE-Meschede – Colors Of Rock
01.07. DE-Pfullendorf – Seepark Biker Days
13.07. DE-Haunetal – Haune Rock Festival
22.07. DE-Wyk auf Föhr – Wyk tanzt
28.07. DE-Seebronn – Rock Of Ages
29.07. DE-Bad Hindelang – Summer Sound
05.08. CH-Brienz – Brienzersee Rockfestival
11.08. DE-Solingen – Sommerparty
12.08. DE-Eggenstein – Rock am Wald
19.08. DE-Rotenhain – Rock im Feld
02.09. DE-Brüggen – Bongert Open Air
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