George Harrison Wrote This Song for a Beatles Album but It Was Rejected After 100 Takes

George Harrison's Not Guilty, a song written for The Beatles' White Album but rejected after over 100 takes due to its ...
American Songwriter

3 Songs That Were Rejected Multiple Times Before Becoming Hits

These three songs have become impossibly popular, but the songwriters struggled to find someone who didn't reject them.
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Legendary Beatles Member Paul McCartney Wrote This Song for Frank Sinatra but It Was Rejected

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American Songwriter

Johnny Cash Rejected This Tom Petty Song Over One Chord

As any musician knows, sometimes, the way a song sounds in your head doesn’t end up working out in real life, and such was the case for a standalone Tom Petty song that Johnny Cash rejected over its ...
The Cheat Sheet

Beyoncé Once Rejected an ‘Awful’ Song From Coldplay’s Chris Martin

In 2016, Coldplay performed at the Super Bowl with Beyoncé and Bruno Mars. He said he felt great about the performance, but soon realized that people online were not as happy with it. “This very ...
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Amy Adams Declined to Sing a ‘Very Dirty’ Song on ‘SNL’ in Order to Protect ‘Enchanted’ Fans; She Told the Lonely Island: ‘It Will Be Scarring For Them’

“I’m not gonna go into great detail about it, but it was a song that would have been a duet with me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty,” Samberg said of the lost sketch. “It was basically like we ...