The Heat Is On
David Woodford's sax on the record, a different player miming in the video, and Frey's biggest solo hit.
David Woodford's sax on the record, a different player miming in the video, and Frey's biggest solo hit.

Two chords built for jamming, Mickie Most in the producer's chair, and folk-pop suddenly acquired a shiver of paranoia.
Holland-Dozier-Holland cut the vocals at Golden World in October 1966, and Levi Stubbs sings like the blow already landed.

Voice, guitar, and a single overdubbed piano line, taped after eleven at night with only an engineer present.

Reprise rejected the album, Wilco streamed it free, and a sister Warner label put out these swooning strings instead.

Fogerty said the rain falling on a sunny day was Creedence breaking up around him; the record aches accordingly.

Fogerty wrote it after a hurricane scene in a 1941 film, then set the apocalypse to a cheerful rockabilly stomp.

Hendrix took Dylan's parable and lit it, and Dylan has played it Hendrix's way ever since.