Under constant scrutiny from her label, Victoria Hesketh and her co-writing producer RedOne came up with this classic pop banger...
How I Wrote
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We learn all about a wallpaper inspector’s daydream that became one of the finest singles of the new wave era...
Written in algebra class, the Mississippi band’s frontman found the perfect equation to create one of the 00s biggest songs...
The NYC band’s Brian ‘Fast’ Leiser explains how the Quentin Tarantino movie-sampling hit was inspired by a valium-popping security guard...
The group’s frontman takes us inside the creation of a track that has nothing to do with Bavaria’s capital city...
We speak with double Ivor Novello Award-winning lyricist and founding member of Squeeze about one of their most famous songs...
The story behind this much-loved new wave hit from 1980 – it’s not actually what popular legend supposes it’s about...
The Wombles songwriter recollects how a song about death became the theme to ‘Watership Down’ and a No 1 hit...
The singer-songwriter aimed to craft “a big song” about “a modern America” and ended up delivering an eight-and-a-half-minute folk-rock phenomenon...
An inter-species tale of unrequited love provided the surprising inspiration for one of the most memorable songs of the 1990s...
The Australian rock band’s songwriter and keyboardist discusses his intimately personal song which their iconic frontman Michael Hutchence did justice...
We learn how the singer-songwriter’s Ivor Award-winning hit single was inspired by Patti Smith and written in just 30 minutes...

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