Billie Holiday's biggest-selling recording is also one of history's most unsettling songs, with lyrics about "Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze." It began as a protest poem by Abel Meeropol (writing under the pseudonym Lewis Allan), which Holiday and her team set to music. The ...
“We were all working on something one night and Trent came in the next morning and showed us the lyrics of ‘Closer’ for the first time,” Vrenna recalled. “Our producer, Flood, and I looked at each other and I told Trent, ‘Well, you had the pop single for the record until you...
“We were all working on something one night and Trent came in the next morning and showed us the lyrics of ‘Closer’ for the first time,” Vrenna recalled. “Our producer, Flood, and I looked at each other and I told Trent, ‘Well, you had the pop single for the record until you...
“We were all working on something one night and Trent came in the next morning and showed us the lyrics of ‘Closer’ for the first time,” Vrenna recalled. “Our producer, Flood, and I looked at each other and I told Trent, ‘Well, you had the pop single for the record until you...
Billie Holiday's biggest-selling recording is also one of history's most unsettling songs, with lyrics about "Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze." It began as a protest poem by Abel Meeropol (writing under the pseudonym Lewis Allan), which Holiday and her team set to music. The ...
“We were all working on something one night and Trent came in the next morning and showed us the lyrics of ‘Closer’ for the first time,” Vrenna recalled. “Our producer, Flood, and I looked at each other and I told Trent, ‘Well, you had the pop single for the record until you...
The depth of Andy’s lyrics expanded the considerations of Jamaican songwriters and one of his primary influences wasBob Dylan. "When I heard Bob Dylan, it occurred to me for the first time that you don’t have to write songs about heart and soul," AndytoldBillboardin 2018. "Bob Dyla...
“Father To Son,” which was written by Brian May and features his trademark sizzling guitar work alongside some deft piano playing from Freddie Mercury. This power ballad, which has some edgy lyrics about the responsibility dads have to their sons, is one of thebest songs for Father’s Day...