Back in the day if your song wasn’t under 4 minutes, it wouldn’t get played. In fact, if it was over 3 and half minutes it was a gamble. coming up next we are telling the stories of 5 songs that defied the odds and at over 7 minutes long made it to the Top 40. in fact a few of them became the biggest hits of the year they were released in. One by the Moody Blues may have invented prog rock and it was inspired by bed sheets. It failed when it was first released not even hitting the top 100 but then it went straight to the top of the charts 5 years later when a DJ played it so he could go take a long smoke break…and another by Iron Butterfly that came from the singer drunkenly slurring the words… They were written down incorrectly and people had no clue what he was saying so naturally it became a smash. And one from The Beatles where their singer dropped the F-bomb when he screwed up a line and it got left in and still went to #1 60 years ago! Stay tuned!

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