Prince wrote what would become a major hit for protege Shelia E, appearing on her debut solo album. Stevie Nicks, "Stand Back" The Fleetwood Mac frontwoman told MTV in 2009 that she wrote theThe Wild Hearthit based on the1999track "Little Red Corvette." After she called him up and told...
"Prince was a gift and a genius. He showed us that we have no limits. His music left me forever changed," she said. "I Feel For You" by Chaka Khan Cheryl Gerber/Invision/AP Prince first wrote and recorded this song five years before Khan made it an upbeat hit in 1984. "Manic Mon...
Paul and Mary's "Puff, the Magic Dragon." The song was based on a 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton, who wrote it when he was 19 years old. Being it was the early '60s, some speculated that the song had something to do with drug-taking, but this simply wasn't...
Other details, like the “pictures of sex” line that references a mural Susannah had drawn near his studio, help fill in details but ultimately fail to show us the film that was playing in his head when he wrote this sprawling soundtrack. Even its deleted scenes confuse more than they en...
Prince and his sister Tyka were pushed by their father to pursue music while attending Bryant High School in Minneapolis. Prince in fact wrote his first piece of music, "Funk Machine", at the young age of seven. By seventeen, he had gained the attention of Minneapolis R&B producer Jimmy...
” The song is an almost perfect erotic fusion of rock and funk that builds slowly until exploding into a guitar solo. Fittingly, Prince wrote the lyrics in the back seat of a car, but not a red Corvette: It was a bright-pink Ford Edsel belonging to Revolution keyboardist Lisa Coleman....
“Just a Friend” is a classic that never fails, especially when it’s time to holler along, “Oh, baby yooou! You got what I neeeed!” The Biz originally wrote it as a sob story. “But it came out funny,” he said. He tried it out on his friends Q-Tip and De La Soul, ...
" in the winning version: For it was in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance where "Ghostbusters" reigned supreme. The fact that Parker Jr. wrote, performed, and produced the entire thing meant he still took home the trophy. However,Huey Lewisno doubt felt he should have been the one ...
While obviously about substance abuse, it's less well known that Neil Young wrote this song about a specific person. Included on the 1972 album Harvest, "The Needle and the Damage Done" eulogizes the addiction of his bandmate, guitarist Danny Whitten. As the story goes, while rehearsing for...
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