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1. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

With the recent passing of the Godfather of Heavy Metal Ozzy Osbourne and the original frontman vocalist of Black Sabbath, this song was written by Gezer the bassist and main lyricist of the group, but what separates this track from others is the lyrical line: “finished with my woman, cos’ she couldn’t help me with my mind!” That resonates with men as relationships can not only be a minefield but lots of sparks and flames as well!

2. Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

British greats Led Zeppelin didn’t release many singles as they wanted fans to purchase the album and as a whole told the story they wanted to tell, so this song was the B-side to their first single Good Times/Bad Times in 1969 but becoming a more legendary and iconic fan and band favourite.

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3. Exodus - Bob Marley & the Wailers

Bob Marley relocated to London in 1976, after an assassination attempt on him and his backing vocalist wife Rita’s life. Like so many Bob Marley songs they are about reflection, the brutality of history especially against the Black race, and the continuation of social injustice, he wrote and released this song on the album of the same name, which further cemented Bob Marley as the best musicians and songwriters Jamaica has ever produced.

4. Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

American singer-songwriter and guitarist third album produced this song, which the album was named with the title of this beginning song. This broke Lenny Kravitz into international stardom and its infectious killer riff unpinned that success for the musician as a solo artist.

5. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys

With the mental breakdown of the late and main songwriter Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys had finished a tour of mostly American cities, gave the reclusive Beach Boy a chance to write and ended up recording with mostly sessions musicians, who he cheekily said numerous times in interviews, “That they were better than the Beach Boys, but didn’t have any lyrics for the music for this song, but Mike Love heard the music on a tape and wrote the lyrics. However, the starting bars of this song are very haunting but became another number one hit for the Californian surfers.

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6. Enter the Sandman - Metallica

Transitioning from thrash metallers to heavy metal heavyweights Metallica released their Black Album, which featured Enter the Sandman that is about growing up, but still as innocent as a child, hence the religious ritual of deliverance from sin and Satan. The recording of this album had its ups and downs with creative odds with the producer Bob Rock but once released it gave the group mainstream recognition and a number one hit beyond the metal and rock charts.

7. (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

The greatest soul songwriter-singer of the formative years of African American music in the 1960s, has been given the title King of Soul since his untimely death in a 1967 aircraft crash. Otis Redding actually recorded the song in late-November with overdubs done three days before that fateful night. Otis Redding considered the song unfinished, and we’ll never know what he would have done to say it was completed, but his record label Stax released it posthumously in early-January 1968 and it became his first number one hit song and album The Dock of the Bay.

8. The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy

Originally a guitarist, Phil Lynott changed to bass guitar and formed Thin Lizzy in Dublin, Ireland in the late 1960s. The song was on their sixth album Jailbreak, and it was becoming popular in the United States after two DJ’s played it to death and saved the band from being dropped by their record label as they were not selling enough singles and albums. It became a number one hit on their home turf of Ireland, and featured in the top end of the British, Canadian and American charts respectively.

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9. Day Tripper - The Beatles

This song was mostly written by John Lennon with minimal work by his bandmate and writing partner Paul McCartney. The record bosses in true fashion and especially in those days and as The Beatles had become a hysterical movement known as Beatlemania on both sides of the Atlantic, put pressure on the group to record a song to be released for Christmas so John Lennon responded with this one. The exact meaning of the contents of the song remains mostly a mystery but after many interviews with John Lennon and the rest of the group it is about a weekend hippy, going on a day trip after taking LSD. Naturally the song was very popular across Europe and in North America giving them another number one single.

10.(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

This song by The Rolling Stones is considered an influence on John Lennon to compose the riff to his song Day Tripper. Another great British songwriting partnership and still consists of vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. The song is about sexual frustration and bizarrely incorporates an attack on commercialism, which did not stop this song from reaching number one mostly in northern Europe and America