At the time, “Almost Paradise” was the highest charting song to date for both Heart legend Wilson and Loverboy frontman Reno.
Footloose was one of the biggest movies of 1984. Not only did Pitchford write the screenplay, but he also penned the lyrics to all the soundtrack songs. In an interview with Songfacts, he revealed he spent 12 hours writing "the song "Almost Paradise" with Carmen, then pitched it to the movie director.
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Ann Wilson called it a ‘killer’ song
Wilson was reportedly the first approached to record the song. In an interview with Professor of Rock, she shared, “They asked me to sing the song, and they gave me my choice. They said in a perfect world, which man would you like to sing with? I went, ‘Paul Rodgers,’ you know, without even skipping a beat. But he wasn't available, and then I said Robert Plant, and of course he wasn't available. None of the ones that I chose were [available]. … Lou Gramm definitely was one … it would have been a whole different thing with Steve Perry, you know."
Ann Wilson performing onstage in 1983.Photo by Paul Natkin on Getty Images
“It was the first of its kind,” Wilson told Songfacts of the completed song. “It was at the very dawning of the bombastic ballad era. I just think it was a great song. A killer song.”
Reno called the recording session 'a magic moment'
Reno also shared his side of the song’s backstory. In an interview with The Huffington Post, he said of Wilson, “I’ve always loved Heart, I love the way she sings, and she’s a wonderful person–I don’t know if there’s any better singer out there than Ann Wilson.”
“They closed the curtains to the sound room, engineering room, and we were just chatting," he recalled. "And around the end of the chat, I asked, ‘Do you know the song, did you learn it?’ She goes, ‘Oh yeah, I know it.' And I said, ‘Do you want to try it?’ And there was a microphone just above us, so she said, ‘Sure.”
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