The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

The music video for the 2006 Academy Award-nominated song Listen, performed by Beyoncé Knowles, received a director's cut by Diane Martel.

It was poorly received by critics, but Bowie's theme song rose to number two in the UK charts.

The song was recorded on 26 May 1971 and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York ’ s WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of The Fillmore East, a famous New York concert hall.

Songwriter Mike Brady, of " Up There Cazaly " fame, penned an updated version of the song in 1999 complete with a new verse arrangement, but it was not well received.

Nevertheless, the song often received standing ovations when performed in concert, went to number 22 in the Christian charts through a marketing deal with Rick Hendrix Company, and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award.

On April 12, 1966, Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in Los Angeles, California, two years after the song had become a hit.

Several songs from the album received regular airplay on major North American rock stations, with Hatfield's song " My Sister " becoming the biggest hit of her career, with a # 1 placing on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and the video becoming an MTV staple.

The song " I've Seen It All " ( which Trier co-wrote ) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.

Even though it was in essence a novelty song, it actually peaked at # 41 on the Billboard charts and received a Grammy nomination for best R & B song by a group.

The confusion, nonetheless, is so pervasive that, when " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the 365 top " Songs of the Century ", the song was credited to Billy Murray, implying his recording of it as having received the most votes among songs from the first decade.

With the Goya guitar that she received for her sixteenth birthday, Nicks wrote her first song called " I've Loved and I've Lost, and I'm Sad But Not Blue ".

Kate McGarrigle's song about the legend was one of the last things she wrote prior to her death, and received its only performance at her last concert at Royal Albert Hall in December 2009.

The band, now revitalised by the response to Live Aid — a " shot in the arm " Roger Taylor called it, — and the ensuing increase in record sales, ended 1985 by releasing the single " One Vision ", which was the first time since " Stone Cold Crazy " that all four bandmembers received a writing credit for the one song.

In 1998 he received an Outstanding Contribution Award for his TV -/ movie-soundtracks, and made a cameo-appearance in children's movie Abeltje as a member of a vocal group from South America learning his own song Smoorverliefd.

He received an Oscar nomination for the song " Father and Daughter " in 2002.

The song received crucial airplay on BBC Radio 1 and DJ John Peel's evening show, and Bauhaus was subsequently asked to record a session for Peel's show, which was broadcast on January 3, 1980.

The song, and Aguilera's vocals, were so well received that it landed her a recording contract with RCA records.

On November 8, 2007, Prince Fans United received a song named " PFUnk ", providing a kind of " unofficial answer " to their movement.

The song " Calling On " received regular airplay on Australian radio station Triple J during 2001, however it failed to break into the station's Hottest 100 that year.

Other notable successes include Tammy and the Bachelor ( 1957 ), in which her rendering of the song " Tammy " reached number one on the music charts ; and The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( 1964 ), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

The band has received five Grammy nominations, winning two of them ; one in 2007 for the song " Eyes of the Insane ", and one in 2008 for the song " Final Six " ( both from 2006's Christ Illusion ).

Both Eric and Brian tended to play technical solos at fast speeds and with overlapping riffs, which gave Deicide the definitive heavy sound and complex song structures.

Although the biggest hit on the album ( and ELO's biggest hit overall ) was the rock song " Don't Bring Me Down ", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence.

* " Sulfur " ( song ), a single by American heavy metal band Slipknot

* The Finnish heavy metal band Amorphis has a song called Sampo on their 2009 album " Skyforger ".

In a recent webisode posted on the band's website, Lewis stated that eight songs are written and that " every one of them is as heavy or heavier than the heaviest song on the last record ".

The song starts off with a heavy crescendo of woodwinds and low strings playing the famous Tomb Raider melody, and then breaks off into an almost playful arc, featuring parts of the harp composition from the Tomb Raider theme.

Swedish heavy metal band Katana has a song entitled " The Wisdom of Emond ´ s Field " on their 2012 album " Storms of War ".

The 1995 song Noch koroche dnya (" Night is Shorter than Day ") by the Russian heavy metal band Aria is based on Meursault's encounter with the chaplain in the final scene of the novel.

Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song dynamics, and apathetic or angst-filled lyrics.

* Elric, his homeland of Melniboné, and his sword Stormbringer are featured in German heavy metal band Blind Guardian's song " Fast to Madness " from their " Follow the Blind " album ( 1989 ).

The rap song is in Spanish, with a heavy dose of lunfardo, some English words, and a few pop culture references ( among others, Don Johnson, Bon Scott, John Lennon and Yoko Ono are mentioned ).

American heavy metal band High on Fire included their song " The Yeti " on their second album Surrounded by Thieves.

The original working title of the song was Dune, however the band was denied permission to use it, with Frank Herbert's agents stating " Frank Herbert doesn't like rock bands, particularly heavy rock bands, and especially bands like Iron Maiden .".

The heavy metal band Iced Earth also did a song about the creature called Dragon's Child on the Horror Show album.

a section from Stormy Weather was referenced by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden through their song " Revelations " off of their album Piece Of Mind.

* A song adaptation was written by American heavy metal band Metallica for their 1984 album Ride the Lightning.

The heavy metal band The Sword has also released a song called " Astraea's Dream " in their 2010 album Warp Riders.

Airplay, heavy rotation of the music video on the MTV network and television appearances on popular programs like The Arsenio Hall Show popularized the song.

One was a clip with what appears to be a live performance of the song ; the other is the better-known colour clip, featuring the band in heavy makeup, miming to the same live recording used in the B & W clip.

In between the two poles, there are pieces like " Sex, God, Sex " ( heavy metal-like bass riffs with blues and gospel-inspired singing ), " Blood and Honey " ( a murder ballad with early post-rock tendencies ), and " Blind Love " ( a lengthy song, alternating between intoned vocals and violent instrumental passages ).

The song, " Zero Hour ," received heavy airplay on KROQ-FM, and the Plimsouls grew to be one of the top club draws in the city.

Their music is similar to early symphonic progressive rock groups such as Yes, marked by sharp dynamic changes, polyrhythmics, heavy bass, vocal harmonies, abstract and occasionally nonsensical lyrics, and extended song lengths.

In the days following the state coup of August 23, 1944, when Romania turned against Nazi Germany and participated in the war along with the Allies, the song received heavy radio broadcast.

As an April Fools ' Day joke, Hanson covered the song " Wait and Bleed " by the heavy metal band Slipknot, and the website Shockhound claimed that Hanson would record an entire album of Slipknot covers.