Table of contents:
- 1. "I Shot the Sheriff" by Bob Marley
- 2. "Le Freak", Group Chic
- 3. "Yesterday", The Beatles
- 4. "Layla" Eric Clapton
- 5. "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson
- 6. "White Room", Cream
Video: 6 world hits and curious stories associated with them
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Nothing comes from nowhere and goes nowhere - this common phrase can well be attributed to the creation of musical hits. Each of them has its own story, and sometimes it can turn out to be no less vivid than the song itself. In this review, we will tell the stories behind the creation of the world's most famous hits.
1. "I Shot the Sheriff" by Bob Marley
The song was first performed in 1973 by Bob Marley with the vocal group The Wailers. But the song did not become a hit immediately, but only thanks to Eric Clapton, who created a cover version in 1974, which, to the surprise of Clapton himself, became the number one hit in the United States, thereby raising the popularity of Marley himself.
The simple words of this song, however, sparked a lot of speculation. A very original version belongs to his girlfriend Esther Anderson. According to her, Bob wrote the song after their conflict over birth control pills. And by sheriff, he meant the doctor who prescribed these pills.
2. "Le Freak", Group Chic
On New Year's Eve 1977 1977 Niall Rogers and Bernard Edwards, musicians of the famous group Chic, the guards refused to let them into the Studio 54 disco nightclub in New York. The famous musicians were invited in advance by the singer Grace Jones to the New Year's party, but she forgot to inform the guards.
Without getting to the club, the friends returned home and literally in half an hour wrote “Le Freak”, which immediately after its release in 1978 instantly became a hit and the most popular song of this group.
3. "Yesterday", The Beatles
Paul McCartney heard the melody of the beloved song “Yesterday”, released in 1965 as part of the album Help !, in a dream. Waking up, Paul rushed to the piano to play it.
At first, he thought that he simply remembered in a dream someone's melody, and within a month he asked all his acquaintances if they had heard it before. And only after making sure that there was no such melody, together with Lennon, they wrote the words for it.
4. "Layla" Eric Clapton
Clapton wrote Layla in 1970 after reading The Story of Layla and Majnun, which describes a tragic love story in the 7th century. The book made a great impression on the musician, because at that time he himself was unrequitedly in love with Patty Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison.
In the end, he did tell Patty and George about it, and they remained friends. However, a few years later, the couple broke up, and five years later, Clapton nevertheless married Patty.
5. "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson
The hit “Billie Jean” was written by Michael Jackson while he was driving on the highway. At this time, his car caught fire for some reason. But Michael was so carried away by the song that he did not notice it. Fortunately, a passing motorcyclist noticed the smoke and warned him in time.
As for the song itself, Jackson claimed that it was written in response to the constant harassment of annoying fans of himself and his brothers. However, there is another version, indicating that the song is personally associated with him. In 1981, Jackson was harassed by a deranged woman who wrote threatening letters to him and claimed that he was the father of one of her twins. And once she even sent a pistol so that he would shoot himself. As a result, she was placed in a psychiatric hospital for treatment. The song was released in 1983.
6. "White Room", Cream
The acclaimed British supergroup Cream of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in 1968 released one of their greatest hits, "White Room". The lyrics to this song, written by the poet Pete Brown, are so unusual and incomprehensible that from the moment the song was released, people try to understand its meaning and are lost in conjectures.
But Pete Brown himself, amazed that the song was a hit, explained that these so-called “poems” were just a monologue about his new apartment and nothing more.
There are many interesting stories in Russian music. One of them is related to debunking the legends about one of the most famous romances "Burn, burn, my star".
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