It could be where you grew up, where you always wanted to go, or just a quirky spot you came across in your travels. If you write songs, there's a good chance one of these alluring locations gave you a shot of inspiration. These are the stories about the places behind the songs, and how they got there. Click on the map - you might be in a Song Place right now.
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The latest song-place added is Perth - Bon Iver | Place: Perth, Australia “Perth has such a feeling of isolation,” says American indie-rock Bon Iver frontman, Justin Vernon. The city of Perth, for which this song is named, sits perched on the west coast of Australia and is definitely isolated, with more than 2,500 miles of Outback between it and tourist hot spot Sydney.[read more]
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Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil | Place: Kintore Mountains, Australia Alice's Restaurant Massacree - Arlo Guthrie | Place: Theresa's Stockbridge Cafe, Stockbridge, Massachusetts Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry | Place: Tallahatchie Bridge, Choctaw Ridge, Mississippi Kokomo - The Beach Boys | Place: Islamorada, Florida California Dreamin' - The Mamas and The Papas | Place: St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City Hotel California - Eagles | Place: The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, California All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow | Place: Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple | Place: Montreux Casino, Switzerland Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa - Gene Pitney | Place: Tulsa, Oklahoma Africa - Toto | Place: Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) - The Doors | Place: Alabama You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones | Place: 49 Kings Road, West London, England San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie | Place: San Francisco, California Dirty Old Town - Ewan MacColl | Place: Salford, Greater Manchester, England We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals | Place: Vietnam
The latest comment is posted by Rabbit Leo from outside of Baltimore, in Maryland about Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil | Place: Kintore Mountains, Australia Midnight Oil are brilliant and Peter Garrett is one of the angrier frontmen/songwriters in Classic Rock. Their signature hit Beds Are Burning is an Oz-Rock Classic and live concert staple. The song itself has to do wi the plight of Australia's aborigines-and why they haven't been treated fairly sin England colonized Waltzing Matilda/Down Under in 1788. In Beds Are Burning, Peter screams "The Time Has Come to Say Fair's Fair!...It Belongs to Them!/Let's Give It Back!...How do we sleep while our beds are burning? We Americans are asking the same question because hard times/recession/inequality have retured with a vengeance? I ask Peter-"Why can't we all just get along with each other? Beautiful and Sad Protest Anthem Rocker. The Oils will Never be Forgotten! Australia Forever!