33 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and it was. Ultimately, it all worked out — Clapton and Boyd eventually got together and were married for almost 10 years. She made it her own by adding the “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” chorus and the backup singers’ refrain of “Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me…” and it remains one of Franklin’s signature songs.

Other accolades include 13th place on VH1’s list of the 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll and 37th place on VH1’s Greatest Hard Rock Songs. 1 in the U.S. Pete Townshend being tempted by a groupie, rousing “glam anthem” across the world today, 100 most-performed songs of the 20th centur, The 25 Newest Dog Breeds The AKC Has Recognized, The Very Worst Fast Food Items You Can Order, Groundbreaking Sports Figures That Time Has Forgotten, Glaring Flaws Of Otherwise Great TV Shows. 6 and No. Arnold and also featured guitarist David O'List, drummer Ian Hauge, and bassist Lee Jackson. Lennon described it as “my first real, major piece of work,” adding that “up until then it had all been glib and throwaway.”. The Nice quickly built a reputation as an exciting, theatrical live band thanks to Emerson, who dressed in gold lame, hurled knives into his Hammond organ to produce strange sounds, and mimed masturbation onstage.

The song’s unmistakable riff came to Keith Richards in a dream one night in May 1965, in his motel room in Clearwater, Florida, on the Rolling Stones’ third U.S. tour. Famously, Presley serenaded a basset hound (wearing a top hat) on TV’s “Steve Allen Show” later that year. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song’s content and lyrics came from his wife at the time, Yoko Ono, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit. 1 on the U.K. singles chart in 1964. “I wrote it as sort of like a Bob Dylan song.”. “Hey Jude,” the first single release on The Beatles’ Apple label, was a No.

The reaction of the audience was enthusiastic, and “What’d I Say” went on to become Charles’ first top 10 pop single. The semi-autobiographical song about an illiterate “country boy” from the New Orleans area who plays the guitar “just like ringing a bell” peaked at No. We recommend you to check other playlists or our favorite music charts. McCartney once said the opening lines were “a hopeful message for Julian: ‘Come on, man, your parents got divorced. “I guess it’s one girl, a girl I knew at the time.” The band’s label, Elektra Records, deleted the word “high” from the line “she gets high,” in anticipation of a drug reference affecting the chance of radio airplay. "No Scrubs" introduced the term "scrub" to the popular lexicon, and defined it in the opening lines ("a scrub is a guy that think he's fine..."). Notably, it got them an invite to perform on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” but on the condition that Morrison didn’t sing the line, “girl, we couldn’t get much higher.”. 11. Released in 1963, it was the group’s first No. to create your own account! “I must have sung that 500,000 times,” Turner told. And it gave him his first No. About the gold lamé, I couldn't say for sure - but Emerson's stage wear with The Nice was definitely heading in that direction around that time. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, Stand By Me: The Perfect Song-Movie Combination. It’s not that kind of a song.'”. For me, I’d at least add the acoustic version of Rooster, by Alice in Chains. Released in 1954, it hit the top spot in the U.S. and U.K. charts — partly due to being played during the opening credits of the 1955 crime movie “The Blackboard Jungle.”. Eric Clapton was so moved by Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi’s 12th-century book, “The Story of Layla and Majnun” that he wrote “Layla,” which is often hailed as one of the best rock songs of all time. “That’s what I wanted to write about most of all.”. “Rock Around the Clock,” which was described by The Guardian as “the world’s first rock anthem,” caused rioting in cinemas in schools, was arguably the first teen anthem and paved the way for modern pop music. However, he did include the forbidden line, and it was their first and last performance on the show. It’s also a hit with Ranker voters, who put it at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was responsible for taking the band’s career to another level. I had to take my shirt off and stand there in my bra to sing.”. In 1967, Jim Morrison revealed in an interview with Hit Parader magazine that he wrote this song when he was crossing canals in Venice.

32 spot in the U.S., though it was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. 1 on the Billboard charts. It didn’t do well on its first release, reaching only No. The first track on The Door’s eponymous debut album, “Break on Through (To the Other Side)” was the band’s first single release.
Planet Rock readers voted it the greatest rock song of all time, giving it more than twice the amount of votes of its closest rival, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and it has also been voted the U.K.’s favorite rock anthem. Its highest U.S. chart position was No.

first posthumous single to reach No. That’s genius.”. For a song that Keith Richards wrote in 20 minutes, “Gimme Shelter” made a big impression.
“Blowin’ in the Wind” has been variously described as “Dylan’s first important composition,” the most famous protest song ever, an anthem of the civil rights movement and the song Dylan is best known for, so it’s perhaps a surprise that this song didn’t chart for Bob Dylan. It became an underground hit; according to The Atlantic, demand for the song was so strong in Philadelphia that WFIL, the city’s top-40 morning station, aired it several times a day. However, it’s Valens’ 1958 adaptation that appears in the Ranker chart as well as Rolling Stone’s top 500; in fact, it’s the only song on the list sung in a language other than English. It may also have one of the most misheard lines in rock history — for future reference, Hendrix sings “Excuse me while I kiss the sky,” not “Excuse me while I kiss this guy.”. 9 on the singles chart; in the U.S., it failed to chart at all. “Subconsciously, I was crying out for help. okay, i am done droning on, move along! 1 hit in many countries around the world and the top-selling single of 1968 in the U.K., U.S., Australia and Canada. Sam Cooke’s 1964 hit “A Change is Gonna Come” was released as the B-side to his posthumous hit single “Shake” just days after his funeral in December 1964 (he was fatally shot at a motel in Los Angeles). Here are 50 great cover songs—some of which improve on the originals.