No Sleep till Brooklyn
Kerry King, guitarist for Slayer, played the guitar riffs and solo; he had also released an album produced by Rick Rubin in 1986 (Reign in Blood). In a different tuning, the song interprets ``TNT ''by AC / DC. More metal commentary and adaptation is added by the video, directed by Ric Menello, as a parody of glam metal.
You've Got to Stand for Something (song)
"You've Got to Stand for Something" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Aaron Tippin. It was released in October 1990 as his debut single and the title track to his album "You've Got to Stand for Something". It reached the top ten on the country singles chart in early 1991. Tippin wrote the song with Buddy Brock.
Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room
"Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in July 1984 as the first single from the album "It's All in the Game". "Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room" was Merle Haggard's thirty-second number one country single as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of twelve weeks on the country chart. Haggard wrote the song with Freddy Powers and Sherill Rodgers.
Jo Armstead
Josephine Armstead (born October 8, 1944), often known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. She co-wrote Ray Charles' hits "Let's Go Get Stoned" and "I Don't Need No Doctor", among other songs written with Ashford & Simpson. After a period in The Ikettes in the early 1960s, she also had some success as a solo singer, her biggest hit being "A Stone Good Lover" in 1968.
Top Gun Anthem
``Top Gun Anthem ''is an instrumental rock composition and the theme for the 1986 film Top Gun. Harold Faltermeyer wrote the music. Steve Stevens played guitar on the recording. In the film, the full song is heard in the film's ending scene.
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
``Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking ''is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. The song is over seven minutes long, and begins with a Keith Richards open - G tuned guitar intro. At two minutes and forty - three seconds, an instrumental break begins, with Rocky Dijon on congas; tenor saxophonist Bobby Keys performs an extended saxophone solo over the guitar work of Richards and Mick Taylor, punctuated by the organ work of Billy Preston. At 4: 40 Taylor takes over from Keys and carries the song to its finish with a lengthy guitar solo.
Something (Beatles song)
The opening lyric was taken from the title of ``Something in the Way She Moves '', a track by Harrison's fellow Apple Records artist James Taylor. While Harrison imagined the composition in the style of Ray Charles, his inspiration for`` Something'' was his wife, Pattie Boyd. In her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Today, Boyd recalls: ``He told me, in a matter - of - fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful... ''Boyd discusses the song's popularity among other recording artists and concludes:`` My favourite (version) was the one by George Harrison, which he played to me in the kitchen at Kinfauns.''
Save It for a Rainy Day (Stephen Bishop song)
``Save It for a Rainy Day ''is a song by American singer / songwriter Stephen Bishop. The song was the first hit single from his debut album, Careless. It features Chaka Khan on backing vocals and a guitar solo by Eric Clapton.
Beat It
Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist of hard rock band Van Halen, was asked to add a guitar solo. When initially contacted by Jones, Van Halen thought he was receiving a prank call. Having established that the call was genuine, Van Halen borrowed an amp from Allan Holdsworth and recorded his guitar solo free of any charge. ``I did it as a favor '', the musician later said.`` I was a complete fool, according to the rest of the band, our manager and everyone else. I was not used. I knew what I was doing -- I do n't do something unless I want to do it.'' Van Halen recorded his contribution following Jones and Jackson arriving at the guitarist's house with a ``skeleton version ''of the song. Fellow guitarist Steve Lukather recalled,`` Initially, we rocked it out as Eddie had played a good solo -- but Quincy thought it was too tough. So I had to reduce the distorted guitar sound and that is what was released.'' The song was among the last four completed for Thriller; the others were ``Human Nature '',`` P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)'' and ``The Lady in My Life ''.
Elliott Randall
Elliott Randall (born 1947) is an American guitarist, best known for being a session musician with popular artists. Randall played the well - known guitar solos from Steely Dan's song ``Reelin 'in the Years ''and Irene Cara's song`` Fame''. It was reported that Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said Randall's solo on ``Reelin' in the Years ''is his favorite guitar solo of all - time. The solo was ranked as the 40th best guitar solo of all - time by the readers of Guitar World magazine and the eighth best guitar solo by Q4 Music.
You and Your Sister
"You and Your Sister" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Chris Bell, that appears on his only solo album "I Am the Cosmos". It was released as a B-side to Bell's only single "I Am the Cosmos." The song is very similar in composition, vocals, and guitar playing to Big Star's "Thirteen," which Bell co-wrote with band mate Alex Chilton, as it is also an acoustic love ballad. It features backing vocals by Chilton.
My Old School
The song was written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and is in the key of G major. The original studio track features a guitar solo by Jeff Baxter.
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
``Ca n't You Hear Me Knocking ''is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. The song is over seven minutes long, and begins with a Keith Richards open - G tuned guitar intro. At two minutes and forty - three seconds, an instrumental break begins, with Rocky Dijon on congas; tenor saxophonist Bobby Keys performs an extended saxophone solo over the guitar work of Richards and Mick Taylor, punctuated by the organ work of Billy Preston. At 4: 40 Taylor takes over from Keith and carries the song to its finish with a lengthy guitar solo.
Let Me Rock You
Let Me Rock You is the third solo studio album released by American musician and former Kiss drummer Peter Criss. Due to poor sales for his previous album, "Out of Control", "Let Me Rock You" was not released in the United States until 1998, when it was reissued on CD. The album was produced by Vini Poncia, who previously produced Criss's 1978 solo album (officially released as a Kiss album). "Let Me Rock You" features the song "Feels Like Heaven", written by Criss's former bandmate, Gene Simmons. Vinnie Cusano also co-wrote a song for the album; at the same year the album was released, Cusano became known as Vinnie Vincent when he replaced Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley. The album cover features Peter Criss for the first time without his Kiss makeup, as he did not appear on the cover of his solo album "Out of Control". One year later, Kiss also decided to take off their makeup for their "Lick It Up" album.
Finish What Ya Started
"Finish What Ya Started" is a song by Van Halen taken from their 1988 album "OU812". Despite the album being seemingly complete, Eddie Van Halen came up with the riff at 2 in the morning and went down to his then-neighbor Sammy Hagar to show it. Hagar let Eddie in, and the two played guitars in his balcony until they had a completed song. Once Eddie left, Hagar decided to write the lyrics despite being late at night. The theme wound up being unfulfilled sex, summed up by Hagar as "blue balls". In the song, Eddie Van Halen recorded his guitar part on a Fender Stratocaster plugged direct into the studio mixing console. The song is one of only two Van Halen tracks featuring Sammy Hagar playing a rhythm guitar part, which he played on a Gibson acoustic.
Let It Be
The master take was recorded on 31 January 1969, as part of the ``Apple studio performance ''for the project. McCartney played Blüthner piano, Lennon played six - string electric bass (replaced by McCartney's own bass part on the final version at the behest of George Martin), George Harrison and Ringo Starr assumed their conventional roles, on guitar and drums respectively, and Billy Preston contributed on organ. This was one of two performances of`` Let It Be'' that day. The first version, designated take 27 - A, would serve as the basis for all officially released versions of the song. The other version, take 27 - B, was performed as part of the ``live studio performance '', along with`` Two of Us'' and ``The Long and Winding Road ''. This performance, in which Lennon and Harrison harmonised with McCartney's lead vocal and Harrison contributed a subdued guitar solo, can be seen in the film Let It Be.
Josie (Steely Dan song)
Becker plays a guitar solo on the song, one of the few on Aja. Steely Dan biographer Brian Sweet particularly praised his solo, calling it ``a real stormer. ''Fagen sings the lead vocals. The other musicians on the song include Chuck Rainey on bass guitar, Victor Feldman on electric piano and Larry Carlton and Dean Parks on guitar. The drummer is Jim Keltner, who critic Victor Aaron particularly praises for a fill that restarts the song near the end after a brief pause.
Something's Coming (song)
``Something's Coming ''is a song from the 1957 musical West Side Story. It was composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is sung solo in a tenor voice by the male lead character 'Tony'.
Cold Blue Excursion
Cold Blue Excursion was a solo album recorded by Ray Dorset, leader of Mungo Jerry. The majority of the group's songs at the time were good-time blues, skiffle and rock’n’roll, and these songs on the solo album, written by him during the previous seven years, were designed to show his versatility as a songwriter away from the confines of the basic Mungo sound. The two photos of Dorset inside the gatefold sleeve — one of him sitting in a woodland clearing playing an acoustic guitar, the other of him onstage delivering an impassioned vocal performance with an electric guitar around his neck — summed the album up as well as the quotes from Woody Guthrie printed inside along the track list —""A song was just a song to me...In my own mind, a song is just a song...""
I'll Take You There
Included on the group's 1972 album Be Altitude: Respect Yourself, ``I'll Take You There ''features lead singer Mavis Staples inviting her listeners to seek heaven. The song is`` almost completely a call - and - response chorus'', (1) with the introduction being lifted from ``The Liquidator '', a 1969 reggae hit by the Harry J Allstars. In fact, the entire song, written in the key of C, contains but two chords, C and F. A large portion of the song is set aside for Mavis' sisters Cleotha and Yvonne and their father`` Pops'' to seemingly perform solos on their respective instruments. In actuality, these solos (and all music in the song) were recorded by the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. When Mavis Staples says ``Daddy, now, Daddy, Daddy ''(referring to`` Pop's'' guitar solo), it is actually Eddie Hinton who performs the solo on record. Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section bass player David Hood performs the song's famed bass line. Terry Manning added harmonica and lead electric guitar. Roger Hawkins played drums, Barry Beckett was on electric piano, and Jimmy Johnson and Raymond Banks contributed guitar parts. The horn and string parts were arranged by Detroit arranger Johnny Allen. The horns and strings were recorded at Artie Fields Recording Studios in Detroit Michigan.
For whom did the guitar soloist from Let It Be write the song Something?
who plays the guitar solo in let it be
George Harrison
who did #1 wrote the song something for
his wife, Pattie Boyd