The Beautiful Sound of Nylon Strings
“Keep Your Head Up” is a song by British singer-songwriter Ben Howard from his debut studio album Every Kingdom. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2011 as a digital download, that is a…
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“Heartbeats” is a song by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife. This song has been covered by José González, a Swedish-Argentinian indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Gothenburg, Sweden. González is also a member of the band Junip, along with…
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“Ain’t No Sunshine” is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just As I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones. Withers was inspired to write this song after watching the 1962 movie Days of Wine and Roses. He…
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“Tears in Heaven” is a song by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings from the 1991 Rush film soundtrack. Its lyrics were inspired by the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a New York apartment building in 1991….
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“Is There Anybody Out There?” is a song from the Pink Floyd album, The Wall. The second half of the song is an instrumental classical guitar solo. It is not widely known who played it: In several interviews, David Gilmour…
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“Shape of My Heart” is a song by English artist Sting from his album Ten Summoner’s Tales, released in 1993. The song was co-written by guitarist Dominic Miller. Sting explained that through “Shape of My Heart”, he wanted to tell…
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On 7 September 1976, Clapton wrote “Wonderful Tonight” for Boyd while waiting for her to get ready to attend Paul and Linda McCartney’s annual Buddy Holly party. Of “Wonderful Tonight”, Boyd would say: “For years it tore at me. To…
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“Michelle” is a particular song of The Bealtes production. Is mainly written by Paul McCartney, but there is also the contribution of John Lennon. Michelle presents a sequence of sophisticated chords for a pop piece, in fact McCartney says he…
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Sultans of Swing is the first and one of the most famous songs of Dire Straits, written by guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler. This music is characterized by ingenious fill and solo by Mark Knopfler who mix virtuosity and technique…
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Hello has been a global success for singer Adele, who has sold many copies of the album “25” that contains this track. Hello is a slow song that Adele has written with Greg Kurstin, we could call it a romantic…
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