Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
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(via People) by Rachel DeSantis
Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson and co. had one night only to nail their recording of “We Are the World” — and nail it they did, with the charity single becoming one of the most successful hits of all time.
On Jan. 28, 1985, A&M Studios in Los Angeles was a who’s who of music’s biggest stars, all of whom were gathered to record a song in support of African famine relief, specifically in Ethiopia.
Richie and Jackson wrote the track together, and it was produced by Quincy Jones, with everyone from Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Bette Midler lending their vocals to bring it to life…
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(answered by Steve Rapaport)
You should know by now that the Beatles did everything first.
The Beatles originally wrote Stairway to Heaven in 1964 and recorded it, but never released it. They gave it away to Robert Plant for his new band a few years later.
Here’s the original:
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(Answered by Ely Matawaran)
John Lennon, who was the main writer of the song with McCartney as co-writer, said to Playboy in 1980 that it was about an affair he was having:
“I always had some kind of affair going, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn’t tell.”
When asked about the title itself, he answered:
“I don’t know how the hell I got to ‘Norwegian Wood'”
Sir Paul McCartney:
“John told Playboy Magazine that he hadn’t the faintest idea where the title came from but I do.
“Peter Asher (of Peter and Gordon, brother of Jane Asher and roommate of McCartney in their house) had his room done out in a wood, a lot of people were then decorating their places in wood, Norwegian wood.
“It was pine really, cheap pine. But it’s not as good a title, “Cheap Pine, Baby”…
“So she makes him sleep in the bath and then finally in the last verse I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as revenge, so we did it very tongue in cheek.
“She led him on, then said, ‘You better sleep in the bath’.
“In our world, the guy had to have some sort of revenge. It could have meant I lit a fire to keep myself warm, and wasn’t the decor of her house wonderful?
“But it didn’t, it meant I burned the fucking place down as an act of revenge, and then we left it from there and went into the instrumental.”
NOTE: Norwegian Wood was a landmark recording being one of the first Western pop songs to feature the sitar, an Indian instrument played by George Harrison, which would soon become an integral part of psychedelic sound.
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