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"Clapton is God" is a 1960s meme referencing the English guitarist Eric Clapton. The line was popularised after being spray-painted on a wall in London during the mid-1960s, when Clapton was a member of the Yardbirds and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers , creating the cult of the guitar hero.
"God Is Really Real" is a song by American pop band AJR. It was released by Mercury Records and serves as the eleventh track on the band's fifth studio album The Maybe Man. Despite not being planned as a single, the song, which is dedicated to the brothers' terminally ill father, [1] was surprise-released to YouTube on July 3, 2023. The single ...
God is often conceived as the greatest entity in existence. [1] God is often believed to be the cause of all things and so is seen as the creator, sustainer, and ruler of the universe. God is often thought of as incorporeal and independent of the material creation, [1] [5] [6] while pantheism holds that God is the
The Irish rock band U2 wrote and recorded the song "God Part II" as an answer song to Lennon's "God". Included in U2's 1988 album Rattle and Hum, "God Part II" reprises the "don't believe in" motif from Lennon's song and its lyrics explicitly reference Lennon's 1970 song "Instant Karma!" and American biographer Albert Goldman, author of the controversial book The Lives of John Lennon (1988).
The song became Huey’s first No. 1 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, won “Favorite Single” and “Favorite Video Single” at the 13th Annual American Music Awards, and was nominated for an ...
The song ends with a series of repeating vocal rounds, another device that was uncommon for popular music of the era. "God Only Knows" was issued as the B-side of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" in July 1966 and peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100. In other countries, it was the single's A-side, reaching the top 10 in the UK, Canada, Norway, and ...
Johnny Young wrote the song for his and Meldrum's friend, singer Ronnie Burns.Young originally envisaged it as a slow acoustic ballad in the style of The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever", but when Meldrum heard Young playing it backstage during a taping of the TV pop show Uptight, he determined to secure the song for Morris, reportedly going to Young's home that night with a tape recorder ...
The song was written by producer Ken Gold together with Micky Denne; Denne came up with the chorus first, and they wrote most of the song in less than an hour. They took the demo of the song to Hall and Chris Amoo, the lead singer of the Real Thing, and the group recorded the song at the Roundhouse studios a week later. [4]