"I brought this into the studio, and I was like, ‘I want to do a throwback, kind of timeless-sounding song,’ and I have this idea about, like, ‘I ain’t gotta knock on wood,’ and we would knock on wood ...

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One of the most mutual feelings of being a music fan is knowing every word to a song but not knowing the title. It is a painful inconvenience, and if not for Google and Shazam, it would be quite ...

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Sammy Hagar tells UCR about the new songs he's writing and also shares some details regarding a track he collaborated on with Chad Kroeger and Tommy Lee.