“Surrender” has been ranked as one of the greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone. The outlet noted, “Trick provided the ultimate Seventies teen anthem in ‘Surrender,’ with a verse about a kid who catches his mom and dad getting stoned and making out to his Kiss records. Guitarist-songwriter Rick Nielsen’s secret? ‘I [had] to go back and put myself in the head of a 14-year-old.’”
“I took stuff from my life and embellished it,” Nielsen told Uproxx in 2021. “Growing up, every kid I knew, their parents were weird. Whether they were hippies or straight or religious nuts or whatever, every parent is weird. 'Hey, you want to come over to my house?' 'No, your parents are weird. Do you want to come to my place?' No, no, your parents are weird!' You've got to know how to stretch the truth with your parents. You've got to listen to them, but you don't always have to heed it. That's 'Surrender': Don't give yourself away. Don't turn into one of them."
He also noted that it was the “ultimate slap in the face” for parents to be rolling around listening to their kids’ Kiss records at that time. “Kiss was like the ultimate…’Oh my God, you can’t be listening to this,’” Nielsen said on Chris Makes a Podcast. “Ozzy Osbourne...Alice Cooper, It could have been any of those guys…but Kiss really fit the bill.”
The live version of the song changed the game for the band
As the opening track on Heaven Tonight, "Surrender” got attention when it was first released in 1978, but it didn’t become a teen “anthem” until the live version followed. In a 2020 interview with Guitar Player, Nielsen recalled, “It was a turntable hit, but radio wasn’t really playing it. But when we performed it live, everybody thought it was this big chart hit. So when it finally came out on Budokan, it was like, 'There you go! That’s how we sound!'"
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