Song and story 'Under the bridge'

In 1990 Lead singer of The Red Hot Chili Peppers Anothony Kedis was driving in his car and began saying "sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner." He eventually wrote a poem that included this line. The poem was written a few years after Kedis's friend and bandmate Hillel Slovak died of a drug over dose. He wrote this about the lonliness of losing his best frriend and the lonliness he felt as s heroin addict. Reportedly the bridge is where Kedis used to go buy drugs and get high. In his book Scar Tissue, Kiedis explained that he thought up the lyrics while he was driving from a session with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was kind of sad because John Frusciante and Flea were getting closer as friends and Anthony was set apart from that, due to the fact that he was deeply involved with drugs. That's why he wrote, "Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner." Kiedis also wrote of the song: "Under The Bridge... I started freestyling some poetry in my car and putting the words to a melody and sang all the way down the freeway. When I got home, I got out my notebook and wrote the whole thing down in a song structure, even though it was meant to be a poem to deal with my own anguish." This song was off there 'blood sugar sex magik' album and was the bands first mainstream hit and gave them a headlining spot on the 1992 Lalapalloozza tour.

Also, I remember the first time I ever heard this song it was sometime in middle school and I was driving with my brother in our old Avon that I named Floyd. I remember instantly liking the song but I was too nervous to ask who or what song it was. I knew my brother would tease me for not being up to date on good music. So I sat there trying to memorize the chorus so I could look it up online later. Since then this song has always stuck with me. To this day it is my favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers song!

PS. If your not a squeemish one Anthony Kedis's autobigography Scare Tissue is an interesting read...quite graphic and not very up beat but none the less very well written.

Song and story 'Hey Jude'

I am almost certain you have heard this song but I bet you are unaware of the story behind it. This song was written by Paul McCartney to John Lennon's son Julian Lennon. It was originally 'Hey Jules" but eventually became 'Hey Jude'. It was written as a song of comfort for Julian as it was during the time that Lennon divorced his first wife. Then in the 1980's McCartney was really good friends with Michale Jackson. He suggested to Jackson that he look at investing in song rights as that was becoming really popular for those who could afford it. Then Jackson actually out bid McCartney on all the rights to the Beatles songs. However, McCartney told Jackson that he could not own the rights to 'Hey Jude' since that was technically Julian Lennon's song. Jackson agreed and that is why to this day it is the one Beatles song that you wont hear in commercials etc.