490 Writing Hit Songs, Rewriting Charles Dickens, and Murdering Your Employer (with Rupert Holmes)
The History of Literature
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The Pea Colada Song I Was Tired of My Lady We'd Been Together Too Long
The Peña Colada song I was tired of my lady we'd been together too long packs a whole narrative into four minutes and 36 seconds including the guitar solo. It's played 444 million times on Spotify just on Spotify and probably at least that many times on radio certainly if you count up the number of individual listeners that that song has had it must be in the trillions of listens. Here comes the Sun people you deserve it those of you who descended into the inferno with me and Schopenhauer here comes the sun Rupert Holmes today on the history of literature okayOkay this one right if you like Peña Coladas and getting caught in the rain if you're not into yoga if you
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