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The Joke Guitar That Launched 2.7 Billion Streams
Arctic Monkeys | Do I Wanna Know? The Weight of a Riff Arctic Monkeys wrote the most-streamed rock song in history on a guitar Alex Turner bought as a…
The Eyes Were Hazel
Velvet Underground | Pale Blue Eyes A Sealed Envelope A reel-to-reel tape sealed in 1965 held the earliest recording of “Pale Blue Eyes”, and sat unopened for over fifty…
Daft Punk Built an Analog Temple. The Internet Worshipped It.
Daft Punk | Get Lucky The Paradox A 15-second TV teaser became a 10-hour YouTube loop, and a song built to reject the internet broke Spotify’s all-time streaming record,…
One Take to Change Guitar Music Forever
Television | Marquee Moon The Take Nobody Planned In the fall of 1976, Television recorded their ten-minute guitar epic in a single take at A&R Studios. The drummer thought…
Chris Martin Has Never Told the Truth About Yellow
Coldplay | Yellow A Letter and a Phone Book Jon M. Chu wrote a careful letter asking Coldplay to license ‘Yellow.’ Chris Martin got the title off a phone…
The Hit Kevin Parker Tried to Give Away
Tame Impala | The Less I Know The Better The Almost-Gift Kevin Parker tried to give his best song to Mark Ronson. Ronson sent it back, and it went…
She Called It a Scene. He Made It Immortal.
Dire Straits | Romeo and Juliet Through the Bars of a Rhyme Mark Knopfler admitted he couldn’t write a love song ‘the way it’s meant to be’, then wrote…
The Song Kanye Gave Away Twice and Rode to #1
Kanye West | Gold Digger The Hit He Never Wanted Kanye admitted he never liked Gold Digger, yet it became his biggest hit through a two-year pileup of accidents,…
Nevermind Conquered the World Against Its Will
Nirvana | Nevermind (album) The Accidental Revolution On January 11, 1992, Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson’s Dangerous from #1 on the Billboard 200, a result nobody at the label saw…
The Song That Kept Exploding
Taylor Swift | You Belong With Me A Phone Call, A Chorus, A Grenade A two-hour writing session produced a song that kicked off the most infamous moment in…
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