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In honor of the new "Top Gun: Maverick" movie, I'd like to re-wind the clock to 1986 and the original "Top Gun" movi...

Bob Dylan is a man of many talents and, musically, of many lives.  With a career spanning 60-odd years, with classic songs coming from almos...

From the mind of the man who brought us "Roxanne", "Message in a Bottle", "King of Pain", "We'll Be T...

This fabulous song was released in 1970 by John Lennon and is often cited as one of the fastest released songs in pop music history, as the ...

In the third installment of this series, we took a look under the hood, as it were, at The Beach Boys song "Surfer Girl" which, ha...

The year was 1983, the channel is MTV, and the camera pans right to left....bass player, drummer, and then settles on the guitarist for a mo...

Son House - blues legend For brevity, we'll do a VERY condensed origin & history of slide guitar, and then a short list of a handful...

This beautiful song was written by the always stellar Carole King and her then songwriting partner & husband Gerry Goffin (for context, ...

Here in our 4th piece in the series, we'll look at Sam Cooke's timeless classic, "You Send Me", which was written by Sam ...

This lesson was written roughly 2005 and published at MoneyChords. Enjoy!