Your Song

Hey Jude is a song written by Paul McCartney in August 1968 to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce. "And any time you feel the pain hey jude refrain, don't carry the world upon your shoulders".

Smoke on the Water was released in 1972 to tell the story of Deep Purple in Montreux to record an album. In the Montreux Casino where Frank Zappa performed, some stupid with a flare gun destroyed the entire casino complex.

Hotel California is written about the greed in the music industry of the late 1970s. Don Henley interpreted it as the high life in Los Angeles.



Garden Party is a 1972 hit song by Rick Nelson written after being booed off the stage at Madison Square Garden. He played The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" and the crowd began to boo probably wanting to listen to his original hits. But Nelson wrote and sung "You see, you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself" and the final verse "But if memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck."



American Pie a 1971 hit by Don McLean, with its line about 'the day the music died' is about the air crash death of Buddy Holly in 1959.



The House of the Rising Sun is a folk song of unknown writer. It was about life gone wrong in New Orleans. In 1964 The Animals make it a number one hit. There are 2 versions of why the song was written. One is about a brothel in New Orleans. The other about a women's prison in New Orleans, hence the "ball and chain" in the song.

Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven was written about the pain and loss following the death of his four-year-old son Conor in New York in 1991.



"Leader of the Band" is a song written by Dan Fogelberg for his father Lawrence Fogelberg in 1981.

Thousands of Bulgarians flocked to the country's seaside in the wee hours of the last day of June to meet the first sun rays on the 1st of July. It began 30 years ago as a symbolic protest against the communist government. The song "July Morning" a hit by Uriah Heep in 1972 was adpoted as the anthem of the celebrations.

"Candle in the Wind" is a song by Elton John in 1973 in honour of Marilyn Monroe, who died 11 years earlier. The opening line "Goodbye Norma Jeane" refers to Monroe's real name.

James Taylor's Fire and Rain was a hit in 1970. The song is about his experiences in mental institutions and also about Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend who committed suicide. "Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you"