Stories Behind the Song
Ralph McLean guides you through a number of the greatest songs of all time...

American Pie, Don McLean's classic is deemed to be about the death of Buddy Holly. Read more...	Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, constantly tops polls for the best pop song ever. Read more...	Good Vibrations, loved by the public and critics alike, was a No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more...	Could Green Onions be the grooviest 2 minutes 50 seconds ever committed to vinyl? Read more...	Was Hotel California in any wayy linked to the hotel industry on the west coast? Read more...
Hound Dog was originally written for Big Mama Thornton and became a massive hit for the King. Read more..	Marvin Gaye's I Heard it Through the Grapevine, a lgendary single. Read more..	I Walk The Line, the signature tune for Johnny Cash from 1956. Read more..	Perhaps one of the most beautiful songs ever written for a film, Read more...	The Byrd's version of Mr Tambourine Man is a real classic. Read more...
The ultimate sixties anthem, Aretha Franklin's Respect, won her 2 Grammy's. Read more...	Song producer Phil Spector was responsible for River Deep, Mountain High. More...	John Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever refers to where he once played, Read more...	Tammy Wynette's Stand by Your Man is perhaps her most famous Read more..	Perhaps one of the most beautiful songs ever written for a film, Read more...
The Dock of the Bay was Otis Reading's' only No. 1 hit in America. Read more...	The House of the Rising Sun is a song steeped in American folklore. More...	The Kinks, You Really Got Me, is, credited as the first punk sound. Read more...

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