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29 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song was partly written for John Fogerty's son Josh, who at the time was three years old. Fogerty said: "I knew he would love it if he heard me on the radio singing - doot doot doo, lookin' out my back door." In the song lyrics there is a ref...
28 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This was written about Andrew Wood, lead singer of the Seattle group Mother Love Bone, who died of an heroin-overdose in 1990. Other songs inspired by his death are "Would?" by Alice in Chains, "Hey Mr. Lovedog" by Faster Pussycat, and the whole T...
28 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
The song was written by Baker Knight and first released by Ray Peterson in 1959. It was originally recorded by Vince Edwards in 1958, but this recording has never been released. Elvis Presley recorded a live version of the song in Las Vegas, Neva...
27 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
For this song, lead singer Anthony Kiedis wrote the lyrics around the music. The words are a somewhat random collection of thoughts, with some creative rhyming thrown in to fit the rhythm of the song ("Can I get 2 maybe even 3 of these, come from...
27 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
According to Liza Bermingham, who was tour manager with the band, Blink-182 bass player Mark Hoppus wrote this when he was in a state of depression about being on tour and away from his family. The end of the song is a message that things will get...
27 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This is also known as "Whoo-Hooo," which is the chorus. The title is not in the lyrics, as the name "Song 2" was originally just a working title, with Blur introducing it that way during live performances. Fans soon identified the song as "Song 2"...
27 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
A special edition of Daily Song Facts featuring songs with a short amount of trivia. Enjoy! Fat Lip by Sum 41 This is about lead singer Deryck Whibley's parents. His parents wanted him to be just another normal person, but Deryck wanted to do what...
25 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Ben E. King recorded this shortly after leaving The Drifters in 1960. It gave him a solid reputation as a solo artist. After leaving The Drifters, King auditioned for the wildly successful songwriting/production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoll...
25 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Zwayzoo
When Facebook unveiled its Libra cryptocurrency project last June, the social networking company described it as a futuristic global money that could serve as the foundation for a new kind of financial system. But on April 16, Facebook and its par...
23 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is about man's desire to kill and destroy. Sabbath got the idea from war stories they heard when they did a show at an American Air Force base during a tour of Europe. They wrote the song when they were in a grim deserted place in Zurich...
