Coming up a great interview with a band that ruled the 70s… Dewey Bunnel and Gerry Beckley from the group America and the story of their biggest hit A Horse With Name is a whopper. First of all as rookies This debut single and the album it came from both hit #1… And to top it off, a Horse with No Name might be one the most unlikely #1s of its time…It wasn’t an obvious hit. It was very strange and haunting with vague lyrics that everyone got wrong! Was it about drugs, or acid, or about a painting? As fans tried to decode the lyrics, critics ripped this band apart over them and claimed singer Dewey Bunnell was imitating another legendary artist… it didn’t help that this band replaced that same artist at #1… Coming up we get some answers directly from the band on Professor of Rock.

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I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs and albums. Stories you won't get anywhere else. We have a great show today with one of the biggest bands of the 70s… they had From the 70s into the 80s this band had 11 hits including Many classics you know by heart but their signature song has one hell of a story. One you’ll want to hear. It’s a song that almost didn’t get released because it wasn’t a no-brainer hit. It was quite a strange song a little eerie with vague lyrics about a desert which is ironic since was written in Rainy England by a band made up of free guys who were ex-pats. I’m talking about America and their #1 hit A Horse with No Name. As rookies, this band hit #1 with their debut song and album and not many have done that in the history of rock. But it wasn’t without controversy.

Dewey Bunnel who wrote the song and performed the vocal took a lot of flack from critics about the lyrics and many claimed falsely that he was imitating a Legendary Singer-Songwriter who the band ironically replaced at #1. Up next find out who that artist was and hear what Dewey says about that along with his partner Gerry Beckley the principals of the band We’ll try to decode the meaning of the lyrics and song which has so many urban legends and how Gerry’s son talked him into letting a violent video game use the song decades later. Let's get into the interview. Here is America with the story.

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