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The Meaning Behind “Lay Your Hands on Me” by Bon Jovi and How it Symbolized...
Bon Jovi didn’t take their foot off the gas following their 1986 breakthrough album Slippery When Wet. Instead, they rode the momentum to even more success with their 1988 follow-up New Jersey, which...
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The Meaning Behind “The Mayor of Simpleton” by XTC and Its Journey from...
XTC tended to operate under the radar for much of their recording career. Now and again, however, the British band would drop a picture-perfect pop song that would work its way out of the relative...
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The Meaning Behind the Highway Love Song “II Most Wanted” by Beyoncé and...
Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus come together on “II Most Wanted,” the second single from Cowboy Carter. It’s an old-fashioned duet featuring two of pop music’s most powerful voices. Every Beyoncé album is an...
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The Meaning Behind “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits and How It Was Inspired by...
The 1985 album Brothers in Arms boosted the veteran rockers Dire Straits to new levels of popularity, with the smash single “Money for Nothing” grabbing many of the headlines. “Walk of Life,” as...
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The Beatles’ “Dr. Robert” and The LSD Dosing, Party Hosting Dentist Who...
At face value, the Beatles’ 1966 B-side track “Dr. Robert” might have seemed like an anonymous ode to popular doctors of the day that gave their parents magical cure-all tonics of vitamins,...
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“You Don’t Know What I Got”: The Story Behind “Little Deuce Coupe” by The...
Brian Wilson spent hours listening to The Four Freshmen and playing the piano. He studied the harmonies and mapped them out on his keyboard. He soaked up early rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm & blues, and...
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The Story Behind “Tennessee Whiskey”: The Three Country Icons Who Recorded...
Dean Dillon met Linda Hargrove when she was playing a show at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe. She was known as the “blue jean country queen.” They stayed up late into the night and wrote a song that would...
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The Unlikely Success Story Behind KT Tunstall’s “Black Horse and the Cherry...
The Buggles insisted in their 1979 hit that “video killed the radio star,” but KT Tunstall may beg to differ. The song that introduced the Scottish singer/songwriter to millions of fans got two...
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The Story Behind “I Want You” by Bob Dylan and the Rock Hall of Famer Who...
The year 1966 was a hectic one for Bob Dylan, with constant touring and playing for audiences who were often unhappy with the folk singer’s new direction. Dylan had taken on a rock ‘n’ roll band, which...
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The Meaning Behind “Hold on Loosely” by 38 Special and How a Rocker from...
The band 38 Special carried the traditions of Southern rock into the ’80s and streamlined the formula into a series of radio-ready hits. “Hold on Loosely,” released in 1981, gave the band their first...
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Full Circle: The Story Behind the First and Only Duet Between Loretta Lynn...
My spirit stood on solid ground / I’ll be at peace when they lay me down sings Loretta Lynn in “Lay Me Down” and its reflection on the passage of time and death. After Lynn’s take, Willie Nelson...
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Behind ‘American Idol’ Star Emmy Russell’s “Skinny,” and the Daunting...
Among the hopefuls on ‘American Idol’ 2024 is Emmy Russell, the granddaughter of the late great Loretta Lynn. During her initial audition for ‘Idol,’ Russell debuted an original song, “Skinny.” The...
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The Story Behind “Stay High” by Brittany Howard and Why It’s Not a Song About...
Brittany Howard can tap into that place that makes you feel the whole range of emotions. In one song, she can evoke pain and suffering and, on a dime, take you to the highest peaks of elation. Her...
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The Story Behind the Beatles’ Debut Single, “Love Me Do”
The essential partnership between Paul McCartney and John Lennon would produce many hit songs for the Beatles. But there was a time when betting on a song written by these two artists would’ve been a...
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The Meaning Behind “Jamie’s Cryin'” by Van Halen and What David Lee Roth Had...
The 1978 self-titled debut album by Van Halen comes at you with a lot of bravado and propulsion, with little room for any kind of letup in that approach. “Jamie’s Cryin'” throws a bit of a curveball,...
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The Beatles’ “Happiness is a Warm Gun” and the Shocking Magazine Cover That...
When The Beatles first released “Happiness is a Warm Gun” in 1968, many assumed the track was about sex, drugs, or both. But in reality, the inspiration came from something far less illicit: an...
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The Story Behind “Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)” by Mike + the...
Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel weren’t the only members of Genesis to leave the cocoon of the group and have major success. Guitarist Mike Rutherford formed Mike + the Mechanics in the middle of the...
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The Meaning Behind “My Brave Face” by Paul McCartney and How Elvis Costello...
Paul McCartney didn’t choose songwriting partners lightly, especially considering his first one was John Lennon. Luckily, he chose wisely with Elvis Costello, and the pair cranked out several memorable...
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John Fogerty Shares the Sweet Childhood Memory That Inspired Him to Write a...
John Fogerty has posted another video clip from Q&A in which he and his upcoming tourmate George Thorogood took part. In the segment, Fogerty revealed the sweet inspiration that led him to write...
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A Simple yet Powerful Declaration of Love: The Meaning Behind “Oh Yoko!” by...
John Lennon wrote plenty of songs with ornate lyrics that you can pore over and discuss the meaning for hours. With “Oh Yoko!” the closing track off his 1971 masterpiece album Imagine, he went at his...
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