You’ll Be Shocked To Know What The World’s Most Iconic Songs Really Mean

Published on 02/28/2022
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Walk This Way

Among Aerosmith’s most famous songs, this hit can be found on the band’s Toys in the Attic album, which was released in 1975. It was unexpected to the group that they had difficulty to think about the song’s title, given their past experience. That’s until Aerosmith members ended watching Young Frankenstein, a film Mel Brooks directed, and realized they had changed their views about the whole thing. A joke pertaining to Marty Feldman coaxing Gene Wilder that he should follow him towards the haunted castle, hobbling along and babbling, the titular line inspired the band after they saw the film. The film provided the inspiration for the joke. According to legend, the rest is history.

Walk This Way

Walk This Way

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Total Eclipse Of The Heart

This hit was included on Bonnie Tyler’s fifth album called Faster Than the Speed of Night. Bonnie Tyler’s fifth studio album was launchedin 2008. Many people are not aware of the fact that while it is obvious that it is some love song, it is also something which many people are not aware of. The song, which is some vampire love song that Jim Steinman composed and is available on iTunes. Steinman revealed this in an talk with Playbill. At that time, she was busy with the musical adaption of Nosferatu, which is why the song was initially named “Vampires in Love.”

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

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