Die Geschichte hinter der Musik
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Die Geschichten hinter den prägenden Songs: was sie bedeuten, woher sie kommen und warum sie zählen.
Wake Me Up
Avicii
Wake Me Up arrived in 2013 as something genuinely new: a dance record built on an acoustic guitar and a soulful vocal from Aloe Blacc, fusing house music with folk and country. Tim…
Story lesenHeartbeats
Jose Gonzalez
Heartbeats is not a Jose Gonzalez original. It was written and first recorded by the Swedish electronic duo The Knife as a pulsing synth-pop track. Gonzalez, a Gothenburg musician of…
Story lesenThe Winner Takes It All
ABBA
The Winner Takes It All is widely considered ABBA's masterpiece, and it is also one of pop's most quietly devastating songs. Bjorn Ulvaeus wrote the lyric in 1980, not long after his…
Story lesenOn Raglan Road
The Dubliners
„On Raglan Road“ begann als Gedicht von Patrick Kavanagh, einem der bedeutendsten irischen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er schrieb es über Hilda Moriarty, eine junge Medizinstudentin, in…
Story lesenCalle Schewens vals
Evert Taube
Calle Schewens vals is one of the most cherished songs in the Swedish visa tradition, a waltz about a summer night in the Roslagen archipelago that has been sung at midsummer and beyond for…
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