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The chords of this song are basically David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” played backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo

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I love this song. Campbell, who wrote the music, is one of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers. I love this cover too:

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And here it is being performed by Tom Cruise & Julianne Hough (from Dancing with the Stars) for the movie Rock of Ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTYEtHYbgs I’ve got to warn you: it’s crazy cakes

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Mick Jones (The Clash’s guitarist) plays on this track, and I love what Wakeling (the singer) has said about this song: “The notion was that you were driving around in there, in America, searching for the tenderness - whereas, of course, it's in your heart all the time. So it's like you're looking in the outside world for something that can only be discovered in yourself - because love is a verb, not a noun.”

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You might also recognize this cover:

Or this one:

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You probably recognize this because it’s one of the songs Tori covers on Strange Little Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UazvXSLFNc

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This was Turner's breakout solo hit at the age of 45. She also doesn't appreciate that people usually assume it's about a prostitute because she danced for private parties and certainly wasn't a hooker. Jeff Beck plays guitar on this

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Apparently, Sally Maclennane is a brand of stout

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Mann wrote this with all female pronouns indicating a lesbian relationship, but the studio made her switch it

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Madonna still performs this in concert and considers it her "disco tart" song

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This song was inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land

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There's supposed to be a sequel video where the band is menaced by sea creatures and an octopus plays the horn part, but I couldn't find it

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If you recognize this, it's because of this:

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This song was written for Janet Jackson but she turned it down. Fun fact: Aretha Franklin is Whitney Houston's godmother

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Prince really liked The Bangles and used to show up to their concerts and play guitar with them and hang out backstage afterwards. He wrote this for a different band but then gave it to them

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