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Thank you Zocdoc, for sponsoring today's video. Your health matters and taking care of yourself shouldn't be complicated. Go to https://zocdoc.com/professorofrock to get started. Coming up next, we rewrite history and put it right. 10 songs that deserved to be #1 and were better than the songs that did hit the top spot, including the story of a song that saved the B-52s from breaking up after they lost one of their founding members. The rock smash Dr Feelgood that the Mötley Crüe’s ex-manager claimed was ripped off from Guns N’ Roses. Plus the Bon Jovi song that Dolly Parton heard and assumed was a cover of a gospel hymn about the laying on of hands, but Bon Jovi meant a different type of laying on of hands, and it was spiritual! Plus the Guns N Roses classic Patience that Axl made up on the spot and then had to have Don Henley play the drums on since their drummer was in rehab. Plus the song a famous Goth frontman wrote as a wedding present for his wife. But he secretly hated the song and hated it even more when it became a massive hit. Plus, what happened when one of the most distinctive voices of the rock era had a huge comeback, but sadly died before he had a chance to enjoy the success. It’s time to take the Time machine back to the 80s… let’s do it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers 22Unchained, Thomas Halterman, Keith Novak, Yvonne Fus, Jeffrey Thorn ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fourthwall.com/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #80smusic #vinylstory #onehitwonder Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. It’s hard to believe that 1989 was almost 40 years ago. You say 1989, and I think, oh ya 20 years ago. Ya it’s hard to believe. So there were 33 songs that went to #1 in 1989 but today were are re writing history and putting 10 that hit the top 10 but missed #1 into the top spot inner special countdown 10 classic that are #1 In Our Hearts, and in most cases these 10 are better than any of the songs that hit #1. Let the debates begin as we get the party started with the one they call “Dr. Feelgood.” Mötley Crüe rockin at #10: When this song came out, it sounded dangerous, but there’s a lot to this song that no one has really covered. “Dr. Feelgood” is pure Mötley Crüe adrenaline, big, thick, and relentlessly driving. But what’s the real story behind that incredible Mick Mars riff? The answer gets murky. People have argued for years about where it all came from. Some folks claim there’s a Guns N’ Roses connection: Doug Thayer (their former manager) once said bassist Nikki Sixx secretly recorded an early jam where Slash was playing something eerily similar. Others push a different theory, saying the groove borrows heavily from Killing Joke’s 1985 song “Love Like Blood.” Of course, Dr. Feelgood is not an actual doctor. The “Rat-tailed Jimmy” at the center of the lyrics isn’t just one real person either. Motley’s Nikki Sixx said the words came straight from the chaos he saw and lived through on the L.A. Sunset Strip. When people asked who the “dealer” was, Nikki shrugged it off as a mix of people, because, as he famously put it, “a good addict always has more than one dealer.” The interesting part of “Dr. Feelgood’s” origin is that the song didn’t begin with lyrics at all. Nikki said it started with that unforgettable riff Mick Mars came up with. Nikki heard it and yelled out to Mick. “What was what?” According to the story, he made Mick play it a couple more times, and that’s when the chorus finally clicked into place. The name “Dr. Feelgood” has a weird twist. Historically, “Dr. Feelgood” actually referred to Max Jacobson, a real 1960s doctor known for injecting celebrities (like John F. Kennedy) with amphetamines. But Sixx admitted he didn’t know that bit of history when he wrote the track: Dr. Feelgood was the first Crüe album they made entirely sober. To keep them away from the temptations of LA, producer Bob Rock moved the operation to Vancouver. And because they were recording right next door to Aerosmith, the two bands ended up hanging out a lot. That’s how Steven Tyler ended up adding backing vocals. Other nearby legends also stopped by, including Bryan Adams and Jack Blades from Night Ranger, to lay down background vocals.