The dark personal story behind Sting’s 1983 hit for The Police: “What poetry’s all about”
Sting at his most heartbroken.
Author: Tyler Golsen
The Led Zeppelin song so difficult that they refused to play it live after 1971
They nailed it in studio, but the stage was different.
The Beatles song John Lennon and Paul McCartney dumped on George Harrison
Harrison knew his hits and misses.
The 1971 song that left Paul McCartney embarrassed: “The lyrics are awful”
No love lost from McCartney.
The 2007 Radiohead song born out of a “mad rhythm experiment”
’15 Step’ was a tricky rhythm to nail.
The “primitive” Beatles song that hurt John Lennon in 1968: “He even recorded it by himself”
Lennon was excluded from the track.
The 1989 song Soundgarden used to parody the stupid side of rock: “Ditch all the euphemisms”
Soundgarden takes on hair metal.