Facts and trivia about songs
25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Killers guitarist Dave Keuning wrote this about lead singer Brandon Flowers' ex-girlfriend who cheated on him. Flowers recalled how he discovered her with another man at the Crown and Anchor pub in his hometown of Las Vegas: "I was asleep and I kn...
25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
The song was originally titled, "Interlude." The song is written in the key of B major. Carlton wrote the song's piano riff in the summer of 1998 at her parents' house in Philadelphia; her mother, who had been listening to her, said, "Vanessa, th...
23 Apr 2020 5 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Ella Yelich-O'Connor is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Inspired by her love for such royals as Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France, and the last Tsar, Nicholas II of Russia, she adopted the moniker of Lorde (The 'e' is pronounced silently). Ye...
21 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
In England, a tubthumper is a politician. The US equivalent of tubthumping is "going on the stump" (campaigning). "To piss" has a different meaning in the UK than in the US - "Pissing the night away" would translate to "Drinking (alcoholic beverag...
21 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
It is the fourth track on the band's second studio album, Live Through This, released on April 12, 1994. Although not released as a single, "Asking for It" is one of the band's most notable songs as it charted a brief, four-week appearance on Bill...
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20 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
In the video, the girl (Katelyn Rosaasen) is physically abused by her father. At the beginning, we can see all her bruises. Many of the lyrics demonstrate how hard it is to break the cycle of abuse ("These wounds, they will not heal" and "It's hau...
20 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is 23 minutes long and takes up the entire second side of the album. The song evolved out of Pink Floyd's live shows. According to Shiloh Noone's Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear, Pink Floyd introduced a new piece of music at th...
20 Apr 2020 10 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
The most famous rock song of all time, "Stairway To Heaven" wasn't a chart hit because it was never released as a single to the general public. Radio stations received promotional singles which quickly became collector's items. On Tuesday November...
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Santeria means "Way of The Saints" in Spanish, and is a religion where the focus is on worship of saints. It is practiced in Cuba, Brazil, Panama, and a few other countries. There are some followers of Santeria in California, where the band is fro...
19 Apr 2020 3 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
"Hey Joe" was written by a singer named Billy Roberts, who was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early '60s. The song is structured as a conversation between two men, with "Joe" explaining to the other that he caught his woman cheati...
