Play your favorite song. Close your eyes and the rhythm takes you to another dimension. The voice of the vocalist seems to tell you a secret story that only you can learn. You know the text by heart. For a wonderful moment this song becomes your reality. We all know this feeling and that's what makes us go back to music again and again. Old cartons with cassettes and plates may be dusty, but not the music in them. Music survives because we need it, and what it needs to live is inspiration. Inspiration can come in the most unusual places and from the most unusual sources. It is always the first step we don't see, that first moment of the birth of the song that you sing with a whole throat through the open window of the car or that makes you company in the rainy and gray day. We often have to go back to understand the best. Every great song has its hidden story, and any great story can turn into a song. Now I present present to you five of our favorite songs and the curious stories behind them.

Queen – ‘Crazy little thing called love’

Addictive and energetic rhythm and vocals as the style of Elvis Presley. 'Crazy little thing called love' is not one of those songs that will let us stand indifferently, on the contrary - makes us catch the person closest to us and dance against the backdrop of Freddie's unforgettable voice. While this is one of the most cheerful songs of the 'Queen', Freddy Mercury writes the text in a very quiet place - the bath of his hotel room in Munich. The idea of ​​the song that first shoots the group to the top of the US music charts comes quite spontaneously. The writing of the lyrics and the melody does not take Freddie Mercury for more than ten minutes. Peter Hins, who was at the time the boss of the band, said at this point that the idea of ​​the song occurred to him while he was in the bathtub. He appeared, wrapped in a cloth, he handed the guitar, and he set the chords here and there. Freddy had the ability to recognize the hits. Freddy himself admits that guitar is not one of the best but surprisingly this helps him to create a 'Crazy little thing called love'. The limited set of chords they need to work with to make their idea a reality creates a memorable song, albeit with a simpler structure. This demonstrates his talent to create both unique and multi-layered musicals such as 'Bohemian rhapsody', as well as light and melodic songs such as 'Crazy little thing called love'. Geniality is sometimes in simplicity.

Pearl Jam – ‘Alive’

The best songs appear when the musicians put in them a piece of themselves. Pearl Jam 'Alive' is one of those songs. One of the most recognizable tracks of the band and their first single is the reason Eddie Vedder was to be their vocalist. The music of 'Alive' was written by guitarist Stone Gosard and in 1990 it was only part of a demo recording called 'Dollar Short'. The team of the newly formed band is not yet full, needs its most important member - the vocalist.

The raw demo version of the song falls into the hands of Eddie Vedder, who at the time works as a security guard, while spending his free time on his favorite hobby - surfing. Eddie listened to the tape shortly before going to surf, and somewhere there, among the salt waves and sand of San Diego, the text to the music appeared clearly in his mind. Here's what he says about this moment of inspiration: "I worked as a security guard in San Diego. I was writing music in my living room most of the time. The instrument cluster came to me and started to make some emotions that I had not touched for some time. Something came naturally and I just had to sign it. One morning after work, I was surfing Pacific Beach and then I made the record literally with the sand on my feet. I sent him the same day. "A few days later, the bands already had their vocalist. The emotions that Eddie Vedder talks about relate to his most personal experiences. Shortly after the divorce of his parents, Vedder learns that he has no blood connection with the man he considers his father to be. His real father dies without his son knowing the truth. The complex mixture of feelings with which this discovery marks the soul of the vocalist lies at the core of the text of 'Alive'.

The Beatles - 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds'

Written by John Lennon in 1967, 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' is a song around whose creation there is a long-standing dispute. Applause of a hallucinogenic drug or a beautiful result of the innocent drawing of a toddler? It is possible that the answer lies somewhere in the middle, although the two things are extremely incompatible. In the chorus of this highly recognizable Beatles song, she sings about a girl named Lucy, who is wearing a diamond skirt. According to Lennon, Lucy's image of the song is inspired by the drawing by which his son Julian returns from school one day and the strange explanation the child gives for what he has painted. "My son came back with a strange-looking, flying woman. He said, "This is Lucy in the sky with diamonds." I thought, "That's beautiful." I immediately wrote a song. "It turns out that Lucy is actually a four-year-old girl, Julian's classmate and girlfriend. The child-painted yellow stars inspire the dreamlike images in 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' where he sings for "marmalade skies," "yellow and green cyphin flowers," and "girl with kaleidoscopes." But many band fans find another inspiration behind the song - LSD. The reason for these impressions is the unrealistic paintings that Lennon describes in the text as if they were from a vision or dream, and the fact that the effects of the psychoactive substance were not entirely unknown to the musician. Another clue in this direction is the similarity between the abbreviation of the narcotic and the title of the song (LSD - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds). The song has long been banned in the BBC program for its likely references to drug use. Although Lennon doesn't stop denying Lucy in the sky with diamonds with any drug, Paul McCartney himself says this relationship is "quite obvious."

Nirvana – ‘Sappy’

Most fans of Nirvana know the curious story with the inscription "Kurt smells like teen spirit", which gave the name of the most famous piece of the Seattle band. While 'Smells like teen spirit' is still the most recognizable song of the band and always succeeds in electrifying us with its overwhelming reef, another Nirvana song, which is not yet known, has its interesting story - 'Sappy'.

Kurt Cobain loves the animals all his life and even dreams of creating a small zoo. Among his pets are six tortoises he watches in a bathtub in the middle of his room for a while. It is likely that the turtles originated the idea of ​​creating the text of 'Sappy'.

He will keep you in a spring
And you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
And you'll think you're happy
He will cover you with grass
And you'll think you're happy now

Like most things written by Cobain, the text of 'Sappy' leads to many interpretations and there is no definite straightforward and straightforward meaning. Nirvana's vocalist never liked to explain his lyrics, and he does not necessarily have any explanation - people have to find out the meaning of the song. The meaning of Cobain lies somewhere deep within him. Probably, its turtles, albeit unnamed in the song, turn into a metaphor of existence in delusion and dependence.

Janis Joplin - 'Kozmic Blues'

An unforgettable, unique and sensual singer with a voice that many generations will not forget, Janice Joplin, unfortunately, is also one of those first artists to start the glory of Club 27. Even if we do not know anything about Janice when we release her song, we feel that it's a singing singer to tell something that sucks completely and is completely lost in the song. The cosmic blues that Janice Joplin gives to the audience is one of her most emotional performances. When it performs 'Kozmic Blues' live it often seems to enter a trance-like state. Joplin has no habit of writing the lyrics, but 'Kozmic Blues' is an exception. She created the song along with producer Gabrielle Meckler as part of her first solo album, "I Got Dem Ol 'Kozmic Blues Again Mama!". The driving force, whether the necessary charge for the creation of the song, is the pain and wasted hopes in the life of the singer. Janice herself says that in order to write a song, she must be in a state of trauma and severe pain. Here's what she shares about her condition when at the age of 25, barely two years from her death, decides to write the first lines of her cosmic blues: "I can not write a song unless I'm really traumatized , emotional, I've gone through some changes and I feel ruined. No one will love you better and no one will love you properly. " As if to remind us that despite sadness, life is above all a great joke and should never be taken too seriously, it "distorts" the title of its song and writes 'Kozmic' instead of 'Cosmic'.