10 True Stories That Inspired Unforgettable Hit Songs

When we hear a song, almost all of us pay special attention to its lyrics, as its drama or optimism heightens the emotion caused by the melody and we identify with it.

O awesome.club collected for you ten music stories, some deep and dramatic, and others that will undoubtedly make you perceive them in a completely different and new way.

Eric Clapton wrote this song in memory of his three-year-old son, Conor Clapton, who lost his life when he fell from a building. Despite the difficult trauma, the artist decided to seek inspiration from the pain in order to be able to say goodbye to his son in the best way he could, that is, through music. This is how this classic was born, and many people shed a tear with their emotional words of farewell to a dear person who has passed away.

This song is based on the story of Rebeca Méndez, whose fiance Manuel died in a shipwreck a few days before getting married. Such an event made her mind vulnerable, to the point of waiting for her man in a wedding dress for several days at the edge of the pier. She could never get over this fact and lived subject to this memory until her death in old age. Her ashes were scattered into the sea to join her lover in eternity.

Major events are not necessary for a fact to be significant. The author of this song, Per Gessle, inspired its melody and lyrics from a letter his girlfriend left on the piano, which said “Hello, you fool, I love you” (“Hello you fool, I love you”)🇧🇷 Those few simple words were so moving to him that he ended up using them as a verse for his hit song.

The Argentine musician Gustavo Cerati based the lyrics of this song on the events that happened one afternoon, while having tea with his parents. That day, the three of them had to open an envelope that reported their father’s terminal cancer diagnosis and his impending death. After the experience, he decided to immortalize in the stanzas of Ti for three 🇧🇷tea for three) that moment, with the cups on the tablecloth and her mother’s tears at the news. The lyrics do not tell the event concretely, but the details of the setting, like someone who remembers a transcendent fact in its smallest details. The popular melody became a ballad on an album whose songs were mostly rock.

A breakup often brings out our most vulnerable side and the need to externalize emotions to start healing our hearts. Singer Gwen Stefani is no exception, and after her split from the band’s bassist Tony Kanal (with whom she had a seven-year relationship), she expressed her feelings in the composition of this lyric that talks about two people who distance themselves until they reach a predictable ending. The melody was a real hit, and over the years, Gwen still claims that she is not indifferent to hearing it. Don’t Speak🇧🇷

March 11, 2004. It wasn’t eight in the morning when a series of terrorist attacks on trains in Madrid claimed the lives of 193 people. The lyrics of the song by the band La Oreja de Van Gogh, with which the victims were honored, are based on a diary written by a young woman who traveled every day by train and fell in love with a passenger. The outcome of the story was left unfinished on a Thursday, since its protagonist died while writing in her notebook. The artists donated the proceeds from the song to the Asociación 11-M Afectados del Terrorismo.

This song was written and inspired by Freddie Mercury, almost aware that it would be the last single the band would record with him, as the singer’s life was coming to an end after a tough battle with HIV. The theme song was also intended to prepare fans for the news, as Freddie’s plight, despite media speculation, had not yet been confirmed to the press at the time of the album’s release. Despite the sadness of the theme in question, this song does not allude to goodbyes, but is a tribute to the optimism and effort of the singer who, despite fatigue and pain, continued to give his all to the band, because according to him “The show must go on🇧🇷

The year was 1972, in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. During a demonstration demanding respect for civil rights and the cessation of detention without trial of suspects belonging to the IRA, 14 people died after an unjustified shooting by the authorities. The episode would later be known as Bloody Sunday. The song named after the event was written by Bono and The Edge, two members of U2, as a political protest and a tribute to the victims, trying to capture in the lyrics the feelings of a spectator of the massacre.

This song was based on several important political events that took place in Europe in 1990, such as the end of the Cold War and communist period in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was so successful that two more versions were made, one in Russian and one in Spanish, entitled “Vientos de cambio”. The song was widely accepted by the public, becoming a classic of the band and an anthem to peace, immortalizing in its melody the memory of these events.

The song’s title is a textual phrase by the band’s singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, when, at the age of ten, after the funeral of his father (who died of cancer), he locked himself in his room and said to his mother: “Wake me up when September ends”, because his biggest wish was that this month was just a dream. Years passed and, as he became a famous singer, he managed to turn this phrase, which involved such intense feelings, into a song that acquired multiple interpretations with which to identify. She was listed as one of the best in a list made by Rolling Stone magazine.

As you can see, artists manage to extract beauty from the most trivial event, even the most tragic, to convert it into art, thus immortalizing all their feelings.

Tell us, did you know any of these stories? Do you like these songs?