The Weeknd are recent examples of popular songs connected to drug use. However, the relationship between drugs and music stretches across genres and decades. For example, recent surveys find country music sustaining higher amounts of lyrics revealing drug use, and songs from the 60s and 70s ...
I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street," begins the Christmas card narrative in which a woman writes to an old flame, reporting how much better things are going since she quit drugs and alcohol and found a trombone-playing husband.
For the past eight years I’ve had the tradition of spending January focusing on one year of music from the past. I see it as a bit of a palate cleanser after wrapping up all of my year-end lists in December. For me, January of 2021 was all about the burgeoning punk rock scene of...
the 1970s, when he was addicted to drugs and alcohol. In other interviews and in his memoir, Clapton also faulted his addictions for his racist rant at a 1976 concert inBirmingham, England. He was documented at the time as having used racial slurs and having told immigrants that England ...
Thought to have been a reference to drugs, this platinum-selling No. 2 hit for Foreigner was initially inspired by a trip Lou Gramm and Mick Jones made to see the New York Rangers play hockey. Their goalie left the game with double vision after suffering a concussion. Aerosmith, Dream On...
Focusing on a decade in which classic rock came into its own, the below list of the Top 200 '70s Songs spans the gamut of cornerstone bands. Some were on their way out. But former members of theBeatlesandSimon & Garfunkelbegan crafting solo gems for the ages. The stalwartRolling Stones...
The drugs weren't yet unmanageable; any real drama was years, or decades away. Do they see their infamous 1974 "doom tour"? The album cover with hot dogs on the moon? That discordant, Crosby-sabotaged "Silent Night" in front of the Obamas (which happened to be the trio's last public...
Aerosmith was quickly falling apart by the end of the '70s. Too much success, too many drugs and rampant egos saturated the recording of their sixth LP,Night in the Ruts. Its only single was a pointless cover of the Shangri-Las' "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" that stalled at No. ...
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about Satanism but The Eagles clarified that the song is more about speaking out against the greed and hedonism of the music industry in the 1970s like the typical issues of drugs, money and sex. Don Henley adds that it’s more about “a journey from innocence to experience… that’s ...