The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world's best-loved songs
U2’s “MLK” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
For his first 6 years of trying to be a songwriter, Paul Simon wrote terrible songs. “They were all terrible,” his biographer Robert Hilburn said, “I found his old demos—there’s about 50 of them—and it’s unbelievable: there isn’t one good song.” Finally, in the fall of 1963, Simon made a vow: After spending those first 6 years mostly “copying what
... See more“Blame It on the Boogie” is confusing, because it’s a cover of a song by Mick Jackson, an English singer whose real name was also Michael Jackson. He had a version of the song out at the same time, and British newspapers and radio stations took sides: some of them liked the Jackson version, while others liked the Jacksons’ version.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
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