American Songwriter

Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson Never Liked Their 1985 Hit “What About Love,” at First

I like to say every song has a story,” says Jim Vallance. “This one went from somewhere on a shelf in Toronto to the top of ...

Why Young People Love the Grateful Dead

I was interested in the lost world this music conjured, a world of teenagers like my aunts who had left home young and hit ...

"I gave away all my records, I started giving away my guitars, I was fantasising about my own death." The horrifying origin story behind one of the most uplifting rock so…

" Today is the greatest day I've ever known ," Billy Corgan sings at the song's outset, sounding elated at the thought of the ...
American Songwriter

The Young Love (Turned Heartbreak) That Inspired Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound”, Released on This Day in 1966

Paul Simon wrote the beginnings of Simon & Garfunkel's 1966 track, "Homeward Bound", on a train platform in 1964.

George Harrison Wrote This Song for Bob Dylan—and It Became One of Rock’s Most Beautiful Love Songs

I’d Have You Anytime was George Harrison’s love song for Bob Dylan, a gentle but emotional track that revealed the depth of ...