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In 1964, two songwriters were given a simple assignment: write something for a new singing duo Phil Spector wanted to record. What they created didn’t sound...
She was falling in love with someone new when she wrote this song. Her husband was still in the band. And he had to play on...
He had almost nothing planned. He was sitting at home with a small keyboard when a simple chord pattern caught his attention. His friend heard it...
They were almost finished with the song when the band realized something was missing. Then one guitar idea helped turn it into one of the most...
Sometimes a hit song begins with a moment that stays with a songwriter. That happened with this song. An incident involving someone who worked in Donna...
One of Led Zeppelin’s most famous riffs came from a song that initially gave the band a serious problem. The rhythm kept shifting. The musicians kept...
Bruce Springsteen had the music. He had the chorus. He had the basic idea. But he couldn’t finish the song. Then another singer got hold of...
In 1975, Pink Floyd were recording an album about absence, isolation, fame, and everything they felt they had lost. Then something happened that none of them...
Sometimes a band spends months trying to write a hit. The Spencer Davis Group had half an hour. In 1966, the Birmingham group was under pressure...
In the summer of 1960, Elvis Presley released a song that sounded completely different from the wild rock ’n’ roll that had made him famous. It...