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Dire Straits’ 'Money for Nothing': How an Angry Rant Became an Iconic 80s Hit
One day Dire Straits Frontman Mark Knopfler was shopping in a retail store and he happened to eavesdrop on two meathead workers ranting about Rocksta…
2 years, 10 months ago
Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain': Axl Rose’s 8-Year Journey to a #1 Epic
Up next Rock’s most notorious bad boy Axl Rose had been working on a piano song for about 8 years… It was actually the only song he knew how to play …
2 years, 10 months ago
Gordon Lightfoot’s 'If You Could Read My Mind': The Heartbreaking Song That Almost Changed
It’s quite possibly the most vulnerable song about a broken relationship of the Rock Era. The late Gordon Lightfoot wrote an absolutely gut-wrenchin…
2 years, 10 months ago
Top 5 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Snubs – Why Does It Hate Actual Rock?
Okay, so this one’s an episode I’ve been needing to do for a long time. And I’ll be upfront with you. It’s a topic that really gets under my skin, so…
2 years, 10 months ago
Deep Purple’s 'Smoke on the Water': How a Disaster Led to Rock’s Most Iconic Riff
A flare gun fired by an idiot attending a concert led to the burning of a casino and a towering fire in the sky. The rock band Deep Purple happened …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Doobie Brothers’ 'What a Fool Believes': How Yacht Rock Dethroned Disco
Today’s song was a comeback #1 hit for a legendary band named the Doobie Brothers who lost their iconic singer, Tom Johnston to Sickness. What A Fool…
2 years, 10 months ago
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 'Soul to Squeeze': The B-Side That Became a #1 Hit
So here’s one for you. How many songs do you know that were cut from a ground-breaking album, turned into a B-side several times, and then placed on …
2 years, 10 months ago
Carole King: From Hitmaker to 70s Solo Superstar with 'Tapestry'
Legend Carole King wrote or co-wrote over 2 dozen hits for other people before she got a chance to record her own record... With husband Gerry Goffin…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ratt’s 'Round and Round': The 80s Rock Classic That Sold 5 Million and Endured
Coming up the hard rock and glam metal bands that ruled MTV and the concert circuit in the 80s are well documented from Motley Crue to Def Leppard to…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Couple Behind 3 Huge 80s Hits: What Happened to Them After 'Waiting for a Star to Fall'?
Coming up, it’s the story of two musicians who achieved global success both as songwriters and band members. They also happened to be romantically in…
2 years, 10 months ago