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"Summer of '69" remains popular to this day in many countries around the world [7] and is known as a quintessential summer song. [8] Adams sang "Summer of '69" during the 2011 Cricket World Cup opening ceremony in Bangladesh. [9] In 2019 Adams performed a duet version of "Summer of '69" with Taylor Swift during her Reputation Tour in Toronto ...
According to the co-writer and longtime group member Bob Gaudio, the song's lyrics were originally set in 1933 with the title "December 5th, 1933", celebrating the repeal of Prohibition, [6] but after the band revolted against what Gaudio would admit was a "silly" lyric being paired with an instrumental groove they knew would be a hit, [7] Parker, who had not written a song lyric before by ...
The shorter seven-inch vinyl single version – which omits the song's balladic second movement – afforded Summer her first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, also becoming the last of seven hit versions of compositions by Jimmy Webb to reach the Top Ten on the Hot 100, with "MacArthur Park" by Donna Summer being the only recording of a Webb ...
"The Boys of Summer" is a song by American musician Don Henley. The lyrics were written by Henley and the music was composed by Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . It was released on October 26, 1984, as the lead single from Henley's album Building the Perfect Beast . [ 4 ]
The lyrics to the middle eight of "Back Off Boogaloo" came to Starr while watching London Weekend Television's football show, The Big Match. [6] The program's host, Jimmy Hill, often referred to a footballer's playing as "tasty", [6] a catchphrase that Starr incorporated into his song lyrics. [8]
"One Night Love Affair" is a song by Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams. Written by Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams's fourth studio album, Reckless (1984), it was the fifth single released from the album.
The band's first album The Age of the Understatement was released eight years prior, in 2008, to critical acclaim. [1] Since then, Turner had released three albums with Arctic Monkeys, Humbug (2009), Suck It and See (2011), and AM (2013), as well as composing the acoustic soundtrack for the feature film Submarine (2010).
"Venus" is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. Written by Robbie van Leeuwen, the song topped the charts in nine countries. [6] The song has been covered dozens of times by many artists.