30 Weirdo Backstories to Hit Songs

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30 Weirdo Backstories to Hit Songs

We don’t know about you, but we love a juicy backstory. We’ll delve super deep into the making of any great piece of work. Like what Michael Jackson ate for lunch before recording “Billie Jean,” or what color underwear Neil Diamond wore while recording “Sweet Caroline.” 

We don’t actually know those particular things. We’d probably be served a restraining order if we did. But there are other great backstories here, we swear!

THE WORKING TITLE FOR BILLY JOEL'S SAPPY BALLAD HONESTY WAS SODOMY. IT'S SUCH A LONELY WORD... Joel's drummer Liberty DeVito used to write inappropriate lyrics to songs as a way to motivate Joel to write more acceptable ones. CRACKED.COM Bill DeMain, 2004. In Their Own Words: Songwriters Talk about the Creative Process.

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The Beastie Boys' (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)' was supposed to be a parody. The Beasties were poking fun at 1980's frat culture. Except that no one got the joke, and the song was adopted as an anthem celebrating the kind of debauchery it was sending up. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM The dude in Aerosmith's Dude (Looks Like a Lady) is Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe. According to songwriter Desmond Child, the song was born when the band went into a club and saw a woman with teased- up platinum mullet and black nails and porcelain skin and jewelry and with a curvy waist - who turned out to be Neil.

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The Beach Boys' Never Learn Not to Love was written by Charles Manson. Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson was close with Manson, until the band reworked and recorded one of his songs without crediting him. Manson was furious. Considering the Family's victims were murdered over much less that that, the Boys got off easy. CRACKED.COM

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Keith Richards produced the guitar riff for (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction while asleep. Не woke up the next day without a clue until he heard a recording of about two minutes of guitar and then me snoring for the next forty minutes. CRACKED.COM

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Dolly Parton's Jolene came from the singer's two separate real-life experiences. She came up with the name during a show where she met a beautiful 8-year old girl named Jolene. And the 'homewrecker' angle came from a redhead bank teller who developed a huge crush on her husband. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM THE POWERPUFF GIRLS theme song is based on a sample from the break in the James Brown song Funky Drummer.

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