Here’s What The True Meaning Of The World’s Most Iconic Songs

Published on 10/01/2021
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Walk This Way

“Walk This Way,” from the 1975 album Toys in the Attic, is one of Aerosmith’s most well-known songs. Surprisingly, the band had trouble coming up with a song title. That is, until they saw Young Frankenstein, a Mel Brooks-directed picture. After viewing the movie, the band cracked a joke about Marty Feldman coaxing Gene Wilder to follow him around the creepy castle, hobbling along and saying, “Walk this way.” The rest, as they say, is history.

Walk This Way

Walk This Way

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Total Eclipse Of The Heart

The song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was featured on Bonnie Tyler’s fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night. While it’s apparent that it’s a love song, many people are probably ignorant of something. Jim Steinman initially wrote the song as a vampire love ballad! “I actually wrote it to be a vampire love song,” Steinman said in an interview with Playbill. Because I was working on a Nosferatu musical, the initial title was ‘Vampires in Love.’

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

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