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"I decided that I was going to write a song with a lot of chords." Robby Krieger tells how he wrote a timeless hit with "Light My Fire"
Light My Fire” wasn’t the Doors’ first single — that honor went to “Break on Through (To the Other Side).” It was actually ...
Gwen Stefani on the only No Doubt song she's ever written on guitar
The Stefani-penned Simple Kind of Life proved to be the standout track of No Doubt's fourth album, Return of Saturn ...
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The Meaning Behind the Billy Joel Song That Paul McCartney Wishes He Wrote
The chord progression for the song first came to Billy Joel in a dream then disappeared from his memory. When it came back to ...
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How a Rickenbacker and an empty toilet paper roll made one of the greatest guitar songs of the 1990s
As one of 1994’s biggest songs, and one of VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, “Shine,” the debut single from Collective ...
Iconic karaoke songs from the ’80s
Stacker consulted Billboard, Time Out, and other expert music sources to determine 20 of the most iconic karaoke songs from ...
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Good Riddance say there's "No More System To Believe In" on new protest song
Santa Cruz punk/melodic hardcore vets Good Riddance are back with a new protest single, “No More System To Believe In,” that their label Fat Wreck Chords ... The song comes with a lyric ...
Andre 3000 charms crowd with flutes, humor at Akron Civic Theater show
Andre 3000 brought his all-improvised "New Blue Sun Tour" to the Akron Civic Theatre. The four-piece group played 90 minutes ...
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The 20 Most-Streamed Eagles Songs
20. "Seven Bridges Road" (Live) From: Eagles Live (1980) Number of Streams: 58,991,395 ...
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“It’s a famous riff, and I have to admit, it’s hard to play. You have to be a real guitarist to do it well." How Andy Summers made a massive Police hit using a hand ...
For me it’s the best of the Police,” guitarist Andy Summers says. “There are a lot of other great tracks, but I’ve always ...
13 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them
We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place?
Joni Mitchell's 25 greatest songs, ranked
A song heavy with restlessness, "Urge for Going" was written in the mid-'60s before Mitchell left Canada, and was originally recorded by her friend Tom Rush. It was eventually released as a B-side to ...