A picture worth a lifetime. Two Door Cinema Club & Coldplay - What you want & In My Place. Just Muhammad Ali kicking The Beatles asses. The photo before the Beatle's Abbey Road photo. Justin Timberlake _ Jimmy Fallon _History of Rap Part 3_ 10_.flv. What Makes A Great Chorus? - NME Blogs - NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to win. We just posted a feature on the 50 most explosive choruses ever - a lovenote to those exhilarating 'take-off' moments when a song slaps you round the face with its manifest awesomeness. But what is going on there, exactly?
What gives a great chorus its power, its startling ability to alter your body chemistry? I spoke to two people with some expertise in this area - Bryan Adams, whose best-known choruses made the world punch the air - and (giving a more academic insight), Dai Griffiths, senior lecturer in music at Oxford Brookes. Bryan Adams What makes a chorus connect? Does the chorus tend to come first, or do you write the rest of the song, and then agonise over a killer chorus? Songs like 'Run To You', 'Summer Of 69', people go bloody nuts when they hear those choruses. When you wrote them, did you know you'd written something special? How are famous choruses born? Who is the greatest writer of choruses? Dai Griffiths, musicologist Can you define a chorus in music terms?