All We Need Is An Island

Album: Sammy Hagar and Friends (2013)
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  • There was a suggestion that 65-year-old Hagar record this song with 23-year-old country-pop superstar Taylor Swift, but he was concerned about the age difference. Instead he laid it down it with Heart's Nancy Wilson. "She did the best duet on the record," Hagar told Jam! Music of Wilson. "She brought more to that song than everyone else did ... It's beautiful. She took my idea and just made it from a girl's perspective. I wanted to do it with someone real young and hip and popular and my manager and everyone around me was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah! Let's get Taylor Swift! Yeah, her guitar player is a big Sammy fan! All he does is play your music on the bus.' And then I thought, 'Well, gee, what if someone wants us to do a video, then people are going to be going, 'Is that her grandpa?' I'm okay with being a grandpa but not Taylor Swift's grandpa."
  • Hagar also considered recording this with the lead singer of Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. "I met Grace Potter, and I wanted to do a duet with her," he told Rolling Stone, "but I didn't have the song. I thought 'All We Need Is an Island,' but I ended up doing that with Nancy [Wilson], and Nancy killed it."

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