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The song’s structure gradually builds into a massive multi-layered arrangement
“Don’t just write a song about your ex – make him play lead guitar and sing it right to his face on stage”
“We were struggling so hard to find that song. It was a different kind of songwriting”
“We were trying to create dance music for the head rather than the feet"
“The lyric was about one of Bernie’s exes, but I also thought it worked as a message to my new record company”
“The movie lifts the song and the song lifts the movie”
“It’s the concept of hope that the song communicates. It made the future look better”
“I was really in love with this woman and I wrote a song to impress her”
“Her zest, her humour, her fragility, her fearlessness and her audacious, unbridled talent – it’s all captured on tape”
For all its sun-soaked connotations, the song was actually written in a freezing cold New York apartment
“I wrote the lyrics about a person – and I’ve known a few – who gets under your skin”
John Lennon called it “one of my favourite Beatle tracks”
“It was as close to pure inspiration as I've ever experienced,” King said
Featuring a $20 drum machine and strings orchestrated by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones
Following the sad news of her death, we look back on the making of the song that became Parton's first big crossover hit
The director said her song was perfect – although his first choice had been Prince
Townshend took punk seriously but refused to be cast off as an irrelevant rock dinosaur
A raw confessional piano ballad about his own deep personal insecurities
An anthem inspired by the legendary music festival – by an artist who wasn’t actually there
“That song is like that feeling when you’re walking on the clouds because you’re in love”
“We ended up using the demo because it had an energy and a sound”
The song emerged from the hedonism and chaos of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour
“I knew Bernie would like me to do this one because it’s about his girlfriend”
