American Songwriter

5 One-Hit Wonders With Lyrics Better Than Most No. 1 Hits

Just because these songs technically have "one hit wonder" status doesn't mean they're lacking anything in the lyrics ...

Elton John's Greatest Song of All Time Never Hit No. 1 and It Was Predicted in the Lyrics

Rocket Man by Elton John missed being the top spot in the charts, but the loss is perfectly explained in the song's lyrics.
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1967, a Radio Ban Imposed on a Raunchy Rolling Stones Song Helped Catapult Its B-Side to No. 1

On this day in 1967, The Rolling Stones earned a No. 1 hit with “Ruby Tuesday. This song needed another to be banned for its success.

Elton John’s Most Personal Song Brought Him to Tears and Contains His Most Heartbreaking Lyrics

Elton John was moved to tears creating one of his most emotional and heartbreaking songs, full of deeply personal and ...
Louder

"I was angry at them for writing that song. I thought, You don’t know. You weren’t there." The tragic and horrifying true story behind one of the biggest rock anthems of ...

In 2017, Jeremy Wade Delle's mother Wanda Crane spoke about the song and her son's death for the first time. "That day that he died did not define his life," she told Texas TV station WFAA. "He was a ...