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Thunderstruck

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The band releases the single, Thunderstruck, from their album, The Razors Edge. Angus Young:

It started off from a little trick that I had on guitar. I played it to Mal and he said, ‘Oh I’ve got a good rhythm idea that will sit well in the back.’ We built the song up from that. We fiddled about with it for a few months before everything fell into place.Lyrically, it was really just a case of finding a good title, something along the lines of Powerage or Highway to Hell We came up with this thunder thing and it seemed to have a good ring to it. AC/DC = Power. That’s the basic idea.

AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Official Video)

20 Mar, 1990

Vogue

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Madonna releases Vogue. The song is featured on her album I’m Breathless.

I wrote it when I was making Dick Tracy. After we shot the movie, Warren Beatty asked me if I could write a song that would fit my character’s point of view, that she could have conjured up. She was obsessed with speakeasies and movie stars and things like that. The idea for the lyrics came through that request.

Madonna - Vogue (Official Video)

9 Nov, 1989

Janie’s Got A Gun

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The band releasesJanie’s Got A Gun, from their album, Pump. Tyler:

That song is about a girl getting raped and pillaged by her father. It’s about incest, something that happens to a lot of kids who don’t even find out about it until they find themselves trying to work through some major f–king neuroses.

Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun

17 Aug, 1989

Mixed Emotions

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The band releases their song, Mixed Emotions, from the album, Steel Wheels. Richards:

I think we cut that in Montserrat, an island that no longer exists. That smoldering heap of volcanic eruptions. And we were the last guys to cut there. That was the last record anybody cut there. It’s what happens when you work with The Stones. They got a hurricane and then it erupted. It was a pretty island once. With Mixed Emotions I think I had the music and I went to Mick and said, bring your bit to it. Because it’s a two-way street a lot of the time. I mean there was a time when Mick and I used to write face-to-face all the time. But we were on the road then. Now we can bring ideas to each other and sometimes it’s strange – we hadn’t seen each other for maybe 5 or 6 months and we get together and funny enough, we’d each have written a piece of music that actually fits together even though we haven’t been in communication with each other.

The Rolling Stones - Mixed Emotions - OFFICIAL PROMO

15 Aug, 1989

Love in an Elevator

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The band releasesLove in an Elevator, from Pump. Tyler came up with the lyrics, but was concerned that the title was too juvenile. Perry told Tyler that they already had a song called Dude Looks Like A Lady which worked out very well for them, so they opted to keep the title to the song.

Love In An Elevator (Live From The Office Depot Center, Sunrise, FL, April 3, 2004)

1 Aug, 1989

Cherish

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The artist releases her song, Cherish, from the album, Like A Prayer.

I’ve never been a good judge of what things are going to be huge or not. The songs that I think are the most retarded songs I’ve written, like Cherish, end up being the biggest hits.

Madonna - Cherish (Official Video) [HD]

9 May, 1989

Express Yourself

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The artist releases her song Express Yourself from her album Like A Prayer.

The ultimate thing behind the song is that if you don’t express yourself, if you don’t say what you want, then you’re not going to get it. And in effect you are chained down by your inability to say what you feel or go after what you want.

Madonna - Express Yourself (Official Video)

3 Mar, 1989

Like A Prayer

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The artist releases her song, Like A Prayer, from her album that shares the same name.

Originally, when I recorded the song, I would play it over and over again, trying to get a visual sense of what sort of story or fantasy it evoked in me. I kept imagining this story about a girl who was madly in love with a black man, set in the South, with this forbidden interracial love affair. And the guy she’s in love with sings in a choir. So she’s obsessed with him and goes to church all the time. And then it turned into a bigger story, which was about racism and bigotry… Then Mary Lambert got involved as the director, and she came up with a story that incorporated more of the religious symbolism I originally wrote into the song.