George Harrison | Got My Mind Set On You
24 years after the Beatles first hit, George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set On You" was at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart. Writte
Neil Young | Southern Man
This song is about racism in the American South, with references to slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. Neil Young claimed the song was more...
The Who I Won't Get Fooled Again
Pete Townshend wrote this song about a revolution. In the first verse, there is an uprising. In the middle, they overthrow those in...
Pink Floyd | Comfortably Numb
Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he...
Heart | Crazy On You
Ann and Nancy Wilson wrote this song about Mike Fisher, who was an original guitarist for Heart (he eventually stopped performing and...
Grateful Dead | Touch of Grey
Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics, as he did with many Dead songs, although Jerry Garcia wrote the line, "Light a candle, curse the glare."...
