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Wind of Change - Scorpions
The band wrote this during a visit to Moscow in 1989. The previous year, they became the first hard-rock band to play in Russia, and they returned to play the Moscow Music Peace Festival. At this show, they were inspired by the sight of thousands of Russians cheering them on even though they were a German band. In our interview with Scorpions guita...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 143
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Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
This song is about the detached feeling most people go through life with. It is a commentary on how people cope with the world by withdrawing physically, mentally, or emotionally. In the commentary of The Wall, Roger Waters states that the inspiration was Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett and his ordeal with schizophrenia.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 119
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Material Girl - Madona
Nice hit for working with all kinds of students...Good chorus, they will keep it in mind forever
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 58
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Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Director Jonathan Demme used this to open his movie Philadelphia. Starring Tom Hanks, it was about a lawyer dying of AIDS. Demme met Springsteen in 1985 on the video shoot for "Sun City," but had not seen him since. Demme first cut the title sequence of Philadelphia to "Southern Man" and asked Neil Young to write a song like it for the movie. Young...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 55
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Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
This song explores too much the use of the fisrt and the second conditional. It can be worked with the imagination of the people. For example: If I earned 20 million on the lottery, I would ---------
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 52
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Yellow � Cold Play
Yellow" was written in a Rockfield studio in Wales called the Quadrangle, where Coldplay began working on their debut album, Parachutes. One night after finishing recording "Shiver", the lead single of the album, the band took a break and went out of the studio. Outside, there were few lights on and the stars in the sky were visible and "just amazi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker [Jennifer Warnes]
This is the theme song to the movie An Officer And A Gentleman. It won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1983.
The entire process - from idea to inclusion in the movie and release - took only 30 days. Will Jennings wrote the lyrics. He�s responsible for the words to many famous songs, including "My Heart Will Go On," "Looks Like We Made It," and...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 37
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Proud Mary � Creedence Clearwater Revival
Nice song for working with simple grammatical things..... nice chorus too
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 36
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Paradise City - Guns �n� Roses
Great song for studying, good chorus it cn keep the student repeating a day long
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 33
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Blowin� in the wind - Bob Dylan
Great classical son by Dylan. very good for studyin with clasmmates , very easy to sing everybody ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 32
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