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Some of the greatest songs in rock history begin with a carefully planned idea. This one began with a guitarist messing around. Slash wasn’t sitting down...
Sometimes a band spends months trying to create the perfect song. And sometimes, they just need one more track. In 1970, Black Sabbath were finishing their...
Some love songs take months to write. Some take years. But one of John Denver’s most beautiful songs came together in about ten minutes—while he was...
In 1973, Bob Dylan was asked to write music for a Western film about one of the most famous stories of the American frontier. What he...
When this song became a worldwide hit in 1984, George Michael was still a young man. He was already famous as one half of Wham!, but...
When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded this song in 1964, there was no reason to believe they had just created a future classic. They were...
When Van Halen released this song in 1983, fans probably weren’t expecting the band’s next huge hit to be built around a synthesizer. After all, Van...
By the time Fleetwood Mac began working on their next album in 1976, the band had everything they needed to become enormous. They had Mick Fleetwood...
In 1982, The Kinks released a song that sounded almost impossible to be sad. It had a bright melody, a catchy rhythm and the feeling of...
When John Denver recorded this song in 1971, nobody could have known it would eventually become one of the most recognizable sing-alongs in American music. The...