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Jupiters Darling | ||||
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Studio album by Heart | ||||
Released | 22 June 2004 | |||
Genre | Hard rock | |||
Length | 72:17 | |||
Label | Sovereign | |||
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Jupiters Darling is the twelfth studio album released by the hard rock band Heart. The album was a minor success, peaking at number ninety-four on the U.S. Billboard 200. Two singles were released simultaneously: "The Oldest Story in the World" and "The Perfect Goodbye".
This album marked a return to Heart's hard rock roots; however, it only managed to sell roughly 100,000 copies. Since then the Sovereign record company has filed for bankruptcy, and it has been reported (via band sources on www.heart-music.com) that Sovereign still owes Heart thousands of dollars.
The album cover bears an image of the Mandelbrot set, rotated so the main cardioid is oriented the same way a heart would normally be, with the cusp at top.
The album cover art is seen briefly in the film Elizabethtown, for which Nancy Wilson did soundtrack music.
Sovereign Artist's Marketing Director, Paul Angles, simultaneously released their album via file sharing networks [2] which was included in an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court.[3]
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Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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UK Albums Chart[4] | 120 |
U.S. Billboard 200[5] | 94 |
U.S. Billboard Independent Albums Chart[6] | 3 |
Heart performed the song "The Perfect Goodbye" with Wynonna Judd on CMT's Crossroads in the summer of 2004.
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Jupiter's Darling is a musical romance film released by MGM in 1955 and directed by George Sidney. It starred Esther Williams as the Roman woman Amytis, Howard Keel as Hannibal, the Carthaginian military commander and George Sanders as Fabius Maximus, Amytis's fiance. In the film, Amytis helps Hannibal swim the Tiber River to take a closer look at Rome's fortifications.
The film features many historical characters, including Roman generals Fabius Maximus and Scipio Africanus who appears briefly, in addition to Hannibal. Carthaginians Mago Barca and Maharbal also appear.
Jupiter's Darling was based on Robert E. Sherwood's anti-war comedy play The Road to Rome (1927).
The film was the last of three films Williams and Keel made together, the other two being Pagan Love Song (1950) and Texas Carnival (1951).