Let's get together and feel all right - One Love

• aka "One Love/People Get Ready"
• It was first recorded in a ska style by Marley's original group, The Wailers in 1965 and was released as a single.
• Released on 1977 in album Exodus also
• also included on the compilation African Herbsman under the name "All in One"
• The song contains an interpolation of The Impressions' song "People Get Ready" written by Curtis Mayfield
• The original recording of the song does not credit Mayfield's song and is simply titled "One Love" - this because copyright law was not enforced for Jamaican recordings at this time. When the famous version was recorded for Island in 1977 it was titled "One Love/People Get Ready" and credited Mayfield
• The original song was published in the key of Bb major, but it has now been transposed so it is in the key of C major.
• A posthumous music video was created for the song in 1984 to accompany the Bob Marley & The Wailers compilation album, Legend.
• features several cameo appearances including Paul McCartney
• The song has been featured in Jamaica Tourist Board television advertisements since 1994
• "One Love" was chosen as the best music of Jamaica over the last 50 years.
• "One Love/People Get Ready" was named song of the millennium by the BBC.

You're not the only one - November Rain

• "November Rain" is a power ballad
• released as a single in June 1992
• written by lead singer Axl Rose
• It features a sweeping orchestral backing and is one of Guns N' Roses' longest songs.
• "November Rain" peaked at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the longest song in history to enter the top ten of that chart.
• Most live performances during the Use Your Illusion tour lacked the orchestral backing of the song (the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards being the best-known exception).
• It is the longest song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100
• This song is also rated #9 in the Richter Scale best songs of all time. "November Rain" was voted #1 on the Rock 1000 2006, an annual countdown of the top 1,000 rock songs by New Zealand radio listeners. It was voted #2 on the Rock 1000 2007, being beaten out by "Back in Black" by AC/DC. The song was placed at #140 on Pitchfork Media's Top 200 Tracks of the 90s. In Chile, The song was placed at #73 on Chilean radio Rock & Pop (Chilean radio)
• Slash states in his autobiography that an 18-minute version of "November Rain" was recorded at a session with guitarist Manny Charlton (of rock band Nazareth) in 1986, before the recording sessions for Appetite for Destruction began.
• Slash has said that the solo he played in the album version of the song (it is unclear which) was the same solo he played to the song when he heard it for the first time. The solo is strikingly similar to the one found in "Best Of My Love" by Japanese artist Toshitaro (1984).
• Music video is a large budget (about $1 million, including Seymour's dress) and sweeping cinematography, which won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography. It is one of the most expensive music videos ever.
• In music video For the outside shots of Slash while he is playing the first solo, Rose had originally envisioned it taking place in a "cool field" of sorts. However, since the video was shot in winter, there were no good-looking fields around, and eventually the band decided to use a church in New Mexico. Coincidentally, this was the same church used in the movie Silverado.
• Mr. Hartmaier was in the church with a walkie-talkie with Slash as a helicopter circled above for the big shot. Slash asked him what he did and he replied, "I'm the production designer, "slash" art director slash prop man, slash painter, slash mad scientist. Slash quickly replied with a chuckle..."Ha ha, I'm just Slash." Mr. Hartmaier later said of working on the video, "It was the best experience of my life."
• The priest in the video, an Italian man named Gianantonio, was a friend of Rose. Unbeknownst to the band, the church used for the interior shots was where the priest had performed some of his last services, eight years prior to the shooting of the video.
• As stated at the end of the video, "November Rain" is based on the short story "Without You" by Del James, available in his 1995 book The Language of Fear. The story concerns a rock star grieving over the death of his on-and-off-again girlfriend, who had committed suicide (inspired by Rose's troubled relationship with Erin Everly).
• video was voted "Best Video Clip" in Metal Edge's 1992 Readers' Choice Awards
• Before release of Use Your Illusion I, the song was first played live at Deer Creek Music Center on April 29, 1991.
• The band performed the song with Elton John on piano at the 1992 VMAs.

Life is ours, we live it our way....... and nothing else matters

• Song was released in 1992 as the third single from their self-titled fifth studio album, Metallica.
• The song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart as well as top-ten positions on many European charts.
• Featured as a playable track in the music video game Guitar Hero: Metallica.
• The song has been covered over forty times.
• Singer and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield wrote the song (credited to Hetfield/Ulrich) while he was on the phone with his then girlfriend. Since he held the phone with one hand, he plucked the four open strings of a standard E-minor chord with the other, which eventually made up the first two bars of the song. The lyrics, which talk about being "so close, no matter how far", were also dedicated to his girlfriend, indicating the bond they shared even when Hetfield was on tour. Initially, the song was not meant to be released, as Hetfield had written it for himself, but after drummer Lars Ulrich heard it, it was considered for the album.
• It is one of the few Metallica songs in which Hetfield, not Kirk Hammett, plays the guitar solo.
• The music video premiered on MTV on February 26, 1992.
• The clip consists of parts of the A year and a half... video tape which was shot during the recordings of Metallica.
•  MTV will not air the video during daytime hours anymore because it features nudity in the form of pin-up posters and Playboy centerfords that are taped up in the studio.
• And personally my most fav Metallica song \m/