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Living Next Door To Alice Chords And Strumming, Smokie

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Did You Know? There's an explicit version of the song which started when at live gigs where members of the audience would shout 'Alice, Alice who the **** is Alice?' during the chorus. It's been recored that way by a couple of bands including Smokie themselves.

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Its A Heartache Chords And Strumming, Bonnie Tyler

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Did You Know? It's A Heartache was one of the first songs that Bonnie Tyler recorded after having surgery to remove nodules from her vocal cords. It resulted in her distinctive husky voice. 

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Somebody That I Used To Know Chords And Strumming, Gotye

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Did You Know? Somebody That I Used To Know was both written and recorded at his parents house in Victoria Australia 

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Wonderful Tonight Chords And Strumming, Eric Clapton

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Did You Know? Eric Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight about his wife Patty Boyd which waiting for her to get ready for a party hosted by Paul McCartney. 

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Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles free, easy, accurate and printable beginner guitar chords and strumming

Here Comes The Sun Chords And Strumming, The Beatles

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Did You Know? George Harrison wrote Here Comes The Sun at Eric Clapton's house while 'playing truant' from a meeting. He was tired of all of the dealings with accountants at Apple Corps and felt like it was becoming like School. The song is a metaphor looking forward to the end of what he felt was a dark time for The Beatles.

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And I Love Her Chords And Strumming, The Beatles

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Did You Know? The Beatles only performed And I Love Her live once, outside EMI studios. It was recorded ready for an episode of the Top Gear radio show. John Lennon considered it to be Paul McCartney's 'first Yesterday'.

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Ride On Chords And Strumming, Christy Moore

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Did You Know? Ride On was orignally written by Jimmy MacCarthy. Christy Moore feels that it's a great song because 'everyone who hears it can wrap themselves with it. You can apply your own story to that song'

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Dance The Night Away Chords And Strumming, The Mavericks

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Did You Know? The Mavericks wrote Dance The Night Away in an afternoon. Singer and guitarist Raul Malo considers it a 'happy accident'.

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Wish You Were Here Chords And Strumming, Pink Floyd

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Did You Know? Wish You Were Here was mixed in the studio with the intention of sounding like the first guitar part being listen to on the radio with the guitar playing the lead section along with the radio. 

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Thats Entertainment Chords And Strumming, The Jam Paul Weller

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Did You Know? Paul Weller wrote That's Entertainment in 10 minutes, he explained "writing it was easy in a sense because all those images were at hand, around me."

BBC Radio 2 considers it the 43rd best song of all time.  

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