Corey Hart Returns with "Dinosaurs"

Legendary Canadian icon Corey Hart has returned with a profound new single “Dinosaurs.”

The ebullient, upbeat track musically plays counterintuitive to the poignant subject matter and raw emotions contained throughout the song’s lyrics.

I’m falling down the same road
After all these years
See Van Gogh in my mirror cry
Tears won’t hear the fears

The track is an autobiographical reflection on Hart’s decades-old struggle against back pain, fortified by the love of his life, Quebec chanteuse Julie Masse (“Maggie"). 

And I don't know where we’re headed tonight, but I know it’s gonna be with you
Maggie, you’re the only woman who braves my heart for true

“Dinosaurs” was inspired by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, who wrote the book No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, suggesting that the secret to happiness is to fully embrace pain or suffering and not run from it. 

The new music arrives with an intimate and cinematic video filmed on location in Spain and directed by Toronto based Peter Guzda, who previously collaborated with Hart on his “Dreaming Time Again” music video in 2019.

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Of the new single, Hart says: 

I’m very grateful to still have the opportunity of sharing my music with the world. I’ve battled against debilitating chronic back pain since injuring myself in a sports trauma eighteen years ago. In plain talk — my spine has been fucked ever since. 

My cervical vertebrae were fused in a surgery years ago, but I've rarely discussed, publicly or privately, my ongoing plight with this wickedly pernicious of enemies. In 2021, I herniated three more disks. One year later, I wrote “Dinosaurs.” I felt it was important to release this single. 

We all ‘pay the ransom’ in some way, shape or form. No one gets a free ride in life. 

I hope the song inspires reconciliation, courage, and even peacefulness whenever your own "dinosaurs get mad." 

When we know how to suffer, we invariably suffer much much less. I remind myself all the time whenever trapped in the "perils of my dark despair." 

No mud, no lotus flower. 

So…let it roll, man. 

– Corey Hart

ABOUT COREY HART

Corey Hart has sold over 16 million records worldwide by amassing 9 consecutive US Billboard Top 40 Hits and scoring an impressive 31 top 40 singles in his native Canada.  He is a Grammy nominated ASCAP, multiple Juno and Quebec ADISQ award winner, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame at the Juno Awards in 2019. Hart has also written and produced several songs for Canadian songstress Celine Dion.

Hart’s debut single, "Sunglasses At Night" was an international sensation propelling the young musician to the summit of the pop world. His sophomore album “Boy In The Box” achieved Diamond status certification (1 million plus sales) faster than any other Canadian artist in history by spawning four hit singles lead by his classic anthem “Never Surrender” which spent nine weeks at number one in Canada, winning “Single of the Year” at the Juno Awards in 1985.  Corey has performed in arenas from Montreal to Manila - from Tokyo to Toronto where he sold out the 25,000 capacity CNE Grandstand in 1985.