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Time is about how time can slip by, but many people do not realize it until it is too late. Roger Waters got the idea when he realized he was no longer preparing for anything in life, but was right in the middle of it. He had just turned 28. When the band came up with the concept for the album, the idea was to explore the pressures of life throughout the songs. Time takes on the topic of mortality

Love of my Life, which was written, sung, and played by Freddie Mercury, nearly instantly became a fan favorite and was played at nearly every Queen concert. It was especially popular in South America. Often, Freddie would stop singing and allow the crowd to carry on the tune. This song details the plight of a man who's been abandoned by his lover. He feels that the love that has been taken from him affects him far more than it does his lover, and pleads, "Bring it back home to me because you don't know what it means to me”

The lyrics and the video for November Rain are based on a short story by Del James called Without You. The story is part of a collection called The Language Of Fear, which was brought back to market in 2008 after being out of print. The new version of the book contains an intro by Axl Rose, who wrote: "Del James has a personal knowledge of most of the situations he writes about, and has a love of the gutter from having been there." James contributed lyrics to two Guns N' Roses songs: "The Garden" and "Yesterdays," and has directed several music videos Written by Axl Rose, the original version of this song was 25-minutes long, and was edited down to 8:59. It is the longest ever Top 10 hit and contains the longest guitar solo in a Top 10 single

Silver is about being deserted by your parents. The words were written by Kurt Cobain and tell the story about a little boy left at his grandparents house and him screaming to go home. Dan Peters from the group Mudhoney played drums on this track. Like Nirvana, Mudhoney came out of the Seattle music scene, and for a while were doing much better. Nirvana went through four drummers before finding Dave Grohl; Peters played just one show with the band

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So my grandmother claims that her cousin is Timothy Leary. I have no records on hand proving this, however I’m very intrigued and I definitely want to do some research and see if what my grandmother claims is true or not. If true, it would definitely explain my taste in music and love for cosmic exploration haha✌🏻 To be continued...

"Get Back" was going to be the title of the album and the documentary film about making it. The Beatles stopped touring in 1966 and were worn thin by 1968, but they rekindled their passion for performance after shooting the "Hey Jude" promotional film in September that year before a live audience. Energized by the effort, they agreed to the documentary; the concept was The Beatles "getting back" to their roots and playing new songs for a live audience without any studio tricks. The song "Get Back" came closest to capturing that spirit. Produced by George Martin, it was released as the follow-up single to "Hey Jude" in April 1969 (a month later in America) and was another blockbuster for the group, going to #1 in most territories. Phil Spector, who had worked on John Lennon's solo song "Instant Karma" (which George Harrison played on), was brought in to produce the Get Back album, which was re-titled Let It Be. Spector took the tapes and added orchestrations using his "Wall Of Sound" technique, and the album that was supposed to be the raw sound of The Beatles returning to their roots was released as a highly produced swan song on May 8, 1970, after they had broken up

Billy Corgan wrote Bullet with Butterfly Wings about pain that comes from being a rock star. The lyrics are exceptionally dramatic, and Corgan has said they are a bit of a joke. Possibly shedding some light on what to read into the lyrics, Corgan once said: "If people were interested in my own personal story and they knew every thing that had happened too me in my childhood, I think they would look at me differently because I was raised in a family that set me up to fail”

Kurt Cobain wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit for Nirvana; it came together in a jam session when he played it for the band. He said: "I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off The Pixies." Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of the group Bikini Kill, gave Cobain the idea for the title when she spray painted "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" on his bedroom wall after a night of drinking and spraying graffiti around the Seattle area. In his pre-Courtney Love days, Cobain went out with Bikini Kill lead singer Tobi Vail, but she dumped him. Vail wore Teen Spirit deodorant, and Hanna was implying that Cobain was marked with her scent. Hanna explained that early in the night, she was Cobain's lookout as he spray pained "God Is Gay" on the wall of a religious center that they believed was posing as an abortion clinic and telling women they would go to hell if they aborted their child. They got quite inebriated that night, and Hanna said, "We ended up in Kurt's apartment and I smashed up a bunch of s--t. I took out a Sharpie marker and I wrote all over his bedroom wall - it was a rental so it was really kind of lame that I did that. I passed out with the marker in my hand, and woke up hung over." Six months later she got a call from Cobain, asking her if he could use what she wrote on the wall for a lyric. Said Hanna, "I thought, how is he going to use 'Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit as a lyric?"

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