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Jump is a Van Halen classic and one of the best classic rock songs. The Canadian composed it when she was an unsigned 15-year-old living in Napanee, Ontario.The '40s hit "Rum and Coca-Cola" is really about American soldiers soliciting prostitutes in Trinidad.The horn flourish at the beginning of "Jump Around" comes from Bob and Earl's "Harlem Shuffle"; the squeal throughout the song might be a Prince sample.Joni Mitchell wrote "Woodstock" - the most popular song about the festival - but didn't attend the event because she was booked on The Dick Cavett Show.The Ricky Martin song "She Bangs" found new life when William Hung performed it so horribly on a 2004 episode of American Idol that it went viral.A popular contemporary folk singer, Williams still remembers the sticky note that changed her life in college.The head of Drake's estate shares his insights on the late folk singer's life and music.
A top session musician, Carol played on hundreds of hits by The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Frank Sinatra and many others. The outlaw country icon talks about the spiritual element of his songwriting and his Bob Dylan mention.Billy Joel and Hall & Oates hated making videos, so they chose a director with similar contempt for the medium.
is a song recorded by the rock group Van Halen.
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is a song recorded by the rock group Van Halen. In California, 5150 is police code for a mental case.Eddie used the outro guitar solo at the very end of this song to come up with the idea for the intro guitar riff to Van Halen's later hit, "Standing On Top (Of The World)."
David Lee Roth has given various accounts of the meaning behind the lyrics, but he usually says they are about a TV news story he saw where a man was about to kill himself by jumping off a building (Roth thought, "Might as well jump").
The song breaks the mold of earlier Van Halen songs, mainly in its rolling synth line (played on an Oberheim OB-X), although the song contains the standard Eddie Van Halen guitar solo, which Eddie claims as his favorite solo he ever wrote.
It is the only single the group released in their career to reach #1 on the U.S.
John Lennon got the title of the Beatles song "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" from an article in a magazine published by the National Rifle Association.Avril Lavigne said her Goodbye Lullaby track "Darlin" was "probably" the second song she ever wrote.
is a song recorded by the rock group Van Halen. Amazingly she survived, albeit with serious leg injuries.