Gina Schock of The Go-Go's: Lips Unsealed | Rocker: The Lifestyle Magazine for Mature Hipsters. Allmusic - Reviews. The Beatles. Pearltrees Extension. 23 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs. The Fascinating Untold Stories Behind Some of Our Favorite Songs. Sure, everyone knows that Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” is about about his son falling from a window, Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” may or may not be about Warren Beatty, and “In the Air Tonight” is not about watching someone drown.
But there are plenty of other less well-documented backstories behind popular songs — like the one that surfaced over the weekend about The Beatles’ “Get Back” starting its life as a dubious satire called “No Pakistanis.” Wisely, the band rewrote the lyrics before releasing the song, but it remains a pretty fascinating piece of history, and our cue to discuss the less-documented stories lurking behind some of the songs in our iTunes collection. The Flaming Lips — “The Spiderbite Song” If you watched the excellent Soft Bulletin documentary that premiered on Pitchfork last month, you’ll know that the “spiderbite” in question is one that drummer Stephen Drozd allegedly suffered during the recording of the album.
The-stories-behind-29-u2-songs. Top 10 Janis Joplin Songs. Janis Joplin‘s rise and fall has been widely documented, from books to stage plays to a Hollywood biopic. But all you need to know about her tragic life — she died at the age of 27 of a heroin overdose — is right there in her voice, chronicled on just four albums during her lifetime: two with lumbering San Francisco blues-rockers Big Brother and the Holding Company and two as a solo artist.There’s pain, joy and a sense that everything could come crashing down at any minute within her familiar rasp. It pretty much sums up her life. Think of our list of the Top 10 Janis Joplin Songs as a primer. 'Summertime' From 'Cheap Thrills' (1968) Practically everyone from Miles Davis to Norah Jones has covered 'Summertime,' George Gershwin's 1935 standard from 'Porgy and Bess.' 'Ball and Chain' Big Brother and the Holding Company, the San Francisco psychedelic blues-rockers who gave Joplin her big break, pretty much barreled through their songs with little subtlety or nuance. 'Move Over' 'Down on Me'
Top 10 Monkees Songs. The top Monkees songs demonstrate without a doubt that the band's music has more than stood the test of time over the 45 years since they first popped onto our TV sets. The Monkees' records were some of the best pop music of the 1960's and beyond, and if you want, we will argue that point till we're blue in the face! We dug deep and tried to choose wisely, so without further explanation, here's our list of the Top 10 Monkees Songs: 'For Pete's Sake' From 'Headquarters' (1967) Written by Peter Tork, this ode to the youth culture of the times -- released just before the "summer of love" kicked in -- was from the Monkees' third album 'Headquarters.' 'I'm Not Your Stepping Stone' From 'More of the Monkees' (1967) This is the first and certainly not the only track worthy of inclusion on a list of the top Monkees songs to come from the band's second album, 'More Of The Monkees.' 'Circle Sky' From 'Head' (1968) A Mike Nesmith barn burner from the 'Head' soundtrack. 'You And I' 'Daily Nightly'
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