The Origins of the Iconic, Enigmatic Anthem, In His Own Words It’s one of the most famously mysterious songs ever to become a hit. It’s got enigma baked into it, which may be part of its lasting magic. Like Lennon’s “Norwegian Wood,” and other great though cryptic songs, it doesn’t fill in the entire picture, leaving it instead up to the listener to do that on their own. All of its components enhance this dynamic of hypnotic mystery. There’s the swampy/mystic tone of the track, ethereal yet visceral, just acoustic guitars, bass, and conga with no drums. The vocal is delivered as if from a storyteller spinning an ancient mythic tale, not performing as much as testifying, and in language that resounds like coded poetry. We’re in motion the entire time, days are passing, and the heat is relentless. Elemental symbols are everywhere like images from a perplexingly real dream – a dry riverbed, appointed with plants and birds and rocks and things, and incessant sound. And, of course, there’s that mysterious horse, the one with no name, which did forever force the question: Why? Why didn’t anyone name this horse? In search of answers, we turned to the songwriting source himself, Dewey Bunnell, who spoke to us on the phone last week, the final week of March 2020, at the start of the mandatory stay-at-home orders in California. Dewey was one-third of America, with Gerry Beckley and Dan Peek. All three wrote songs, played guitar, and harmonized beautifully. Gerry wrote “Sister Golden Hair,” and “I Need You.” Dan wrote “Don’t Cross The River,” “Lonely People” and others. And Dewey’s the guy behind some of their most enigmatic and yet anthemic songs, including “Tin Man,” “Ventura Highway,” and “Horse With No Name.” Peek left the band in 1977, at which time Dewey and Gerry elected not to replace him, but to go out as America on their own, along with a backing band. “We’re the Fab Two,” as Dewey said. He was at home in Los Angeles when we spoke. When not on the road, he and his wife split their time between this house and one in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. They’ve got many cats, a dog, and a horse. The horse’s name, he said, is Noname. America was just about to start a two-week run when the virus panic escalated and forced them to change their plans. So before delving into the roots of this mysterious song, Dewey spoke about the impact of this stay-at-home policy on life in the Fab Two. “Yes, we are on lockdown,” Dewey said. “We made a decision on the evening of March 11, after flying out to Columbus, Ohio for a show in Huntington, West Virginia. We had our gear, the band, and crew in a hotel, and realized we’d been putting our head in the sand over this deal. We were facing nine shows in all over that two-week period, and we realized that we had better pull the plug on this for a while, to see how serious this is getting. “We flew home the next day, March 12, and have been in our homes ever since. The day after we flew home, the national emergency was announced, and then everything started caving in. All our other shows were postponed. “We feel like we made the right decision. We made a public announcement to our fans that the shows had to be postponed. After all, our demographic audience is in their 60s, or 60-plus. So the whole thing added up to us being part of the problem, instead of the solution. We’re glad that we did it at the end of the day. “Right now doing okay. I’m here with my wife. We’re doing jigsaw puzzles, watching TV, eating too much. We’re probably spending more time with our pets. We have a horse and a dog and four cats. You look at the upside, right? “Plus, it’s a shared experience. Everybody is doing it. We know that. It’s one of those times in our history that we’ll remember.” The sad news of the death of producer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger from the Coronavirus hit Dewey hard, as America had worked closely with him. “We are mourning the loss of Adam Schlesinger,” he said. “He was a friend, and he produced our Here & Now album back in 2007, along with James Iha. It’s really been a shock. We are big fans of the music made by Fountains of Wayne, and we did some shows with them back then. It’s very sad news.” There is one unexpected positive this long-time touring musician discovered in the midst of this ongoing solitude: a rare sense of peace, something he hadn’t known in decades; a license to be still, with nowhere he needed to go.“My mind and body,” he said, “seem always geared up for travel, motion, moving, getting somewhere, packing a suitcase. One of the strangest things about this quarantine is that this is really an abrupt stop. Not a bad abrupt stop; it’s a nice new experience. “But it’s a new experience, being here. It’s brought that feeling to a stop, that feeling that I’ve got to get ready, got to go in 48 hours, got to catch a flight, got to get my laundry done. “Instead of all that, I can just be.” It’s a song that came quickly, as he remembers, “all in one fell swoop.” So immediate was its creation that Dewey wasn’t sure what he had, and even if it was worth recording, or should be relegated to the novelty song bin. Never did he consider it hit material, or a song that would become a rock standard and for which he’d be famous forever. Yet “Horse With No Name,” which vividly introduced the barren desert landscape of the southwest into popular song long before The Eagles, James Taylor, and others did it, was never easy to understand. Even for its songwriter. From its inception, it seemed to take on a life of its own. It’s something which hasn’t ever stopped and extends to now. Released in late 1971 overseas and early 1972 in America, it went to the top of the charts. But never was it a fly-away hit, beloved during the season of its creation but ultimately forgotten and abandoned. Instead, it’s become one of those songs with an appeal that has incrementally expanded over the years. Never has it been absent from radio, the culture, or our memories, for long. That it’s made a lasting cultural impact is undeniable; evidence of this is everywhere always, most recently only days ago, in a viral video posted by a couple in quarantine in Amsterdam. Mara van Nes and her boyfriend Sem Jonkers used their isolation creatively and acted out the song in their own way. Rather than oppose such comic usage, Dewey and the band fully embrace it and posted the video on the official America fansite, which propelled it on its viral flight. The origins of this iconically mysterious tale of the American Southwest by a band named America began, as did the group itself, in England. Bunnell, Beckley, and Peek were all bonded by heritage and location, the sons of airmen in the Air Force stationed in London. It’s there that this story takes place. DEWEY BUNNELL: The song was borne out of pure boredom. I had just graduated high school in London, and my family moved up to Yorkshire, where my mother was from. I wanted to stay in London, so I moved into the home of a friend and his family. America had signed with Warner Brothers and had a record out. We had been recording and were in full gear, playing shows and recording. I wrote the song alone in this guy’s bedroom that I shared. I wrote it all in one fell swoop. I wrote it in a couple hours. I didn’t question the song. I felt like it suddenly appeared, like waking up in a dream. It was a dream of being on a horse and realizing that I don’t even know the name of this horse. And there was serious heat. I remember getting sunburned severely as a kid and it was on a beach. It wasn’t in the desert. But I guess in my mind’s eye, I was thinking, “I’m on this horse, I’m going somewhere, who knows where? I don’t know the name of the horse. Maybe I didn’t even have a hat on.” Do not underestimate the concept of trying to find rhyme. “I spent three days in the desert sun, my skin began to turn red, I was looking at a riverbed.” Had it been the other way around, I probably wouldn’t have come up with the sunburnt thing. I remember that I did have visuals for that riverbed. I have a picture in my mind of my brother and I when we used to hike around the desert in the sagebrush. This was when my dad was stationed at Vandenberg Air Force in California, a base that was out in the middle of nowhere, up by Santa Maria, California. We would hike around that a lot. There were a lot of dry gulleys. It was more of a California terrain that I was referring to than the Arizona-type desert. But I do remember my brother and I always hiking out to this one spot and down this dry riverbed. Up on the side of the dry walls, sometimes there’d be holes dug in there by animals. I remember we found some owls in one of those holes in the bank of the dry riverbed. There’s a lot of motion in the song. That’s something I can’t get away from in my songs. I’ve had a lot of travel experiences and those are the things that get branded in your brain. There’s motion, and there’s a progression. And by the end of the song, I let the horse run free. I wasn’t sure why, but it seemed right. It’s seemed it was time to let go of the horse and to move on. If there was a next verse, it probably would have been, “Getting in a boat.” But the song was already long enough. It wasn’t called “A Horse With No Name” though. It was called “The Desert Song” then. And it was just thrown into a pile of other songs. When I first brought it to Gerry and Dan, and we were playing it, I really thought it was almost a novelty song. I wrote it in open-D tuning. I started experimenting with that after hearing. David Crosby and Joni Mitchell, who were using open tunings. And we were definitely immersed in their songwriting. It’s open-D tuning, where you tune the Es down to D. But I did a little different thing where I tuned the A all the way down to E. That was the only time I ever used it. I was just sitting there tuning it down and it sounded good. I was bored, just trying to make different sounds come out of that guitar. The first album was already in full swing. We hadn’t picked a single yet, but we were keying in on “I Need You” (by Gerry) to be the first single. At that time, you wanted a single to lead the way with your album. “I Need You” was certainly going to be that. It was a great song, almost a standard. It still is. It was covered by lots of people over the years. So we had our single. But Warner Brothers said, “Have you got any more?” We had four songs at that point, and we went to a little studio to demo them, which was in the Islington farmhouse. That’s where we recorded the first version of “The Desert Song. “ When Warner heard it, they said, “Hey, we really like that. Let’s record that.” At that point, our recordings were just the three of us sitting around a room with our voices and our acoustic guitars. Dan or Gerry would play bass. When we got into the studio, there was some overdubs. We put conga on this, and Gerry played the solo on a 12-string guitar. Ian Samwell produced the record. It is very close to our demo; the sound was there. But Ian was certainly the overseer, and he had a big impact. I still didn’t have the title. At that time, I would just name the songs anything I liked. I had “Moon Song,” “Rainbow Song,” “Pigeon Song.” But as we were honing this song down, Ian said, immediately “Well, dude, you must call this ‘Horse With No Name.’ ” And I said, “Sure, that’s fine.” I didn’t blink. As it was, it did have a better ring than “The Desert Song.” Plus he pointed out that there was apparently an opera called “Desert Song.” We didn’t want to have any confusion. I remember the first time we played “Horse With No Name” live, we were opening for Traffic. It was still “Desert Song,“ then, and my mother heard it for the first time. She said, “I do like that horse thing.” Other people, too, said, “That song about the horse was a good one.” I am glad we used that title. So many people think it’s mysterious. Here it is, just about 50 years later, and people still say, “I feel so sad for that horse. Why didn’t you give that horse a name?” They actually get emotional about it. But I found mystery is good for a song. I think it’s good to leave something to the imagination of the listener. It’s that way in a lot of songs. I’m very visual, and I like to create a narrative that is visual. That’s part of my life, because nature, and the outdoors, all of it was really important to us. Because of moving around a lot in the military, the one constant my brother and I had was always to go out hiking, going to the woods, to the swamp, the desert, whatever the environment of outdoor life was that we had. Because we didn’t know any other kids. So it was a great sense of solace. Plus we were very excited and curious about plants and animals – as in the song, “plants and birds and rocks and things.” We would catch snakes and lizards. I like to create that imagery of outdoors. Then you can fill in all the blanks and maybe see the picture in your own mind. I loved the desert. Moving around all the time, I wasn’t used to it. My dad’s older brother lived in New Mexico. We’d driven across the Southwest one other time, and I remember long stretches with the vanishing point, all those iconic classic looks of the desert. This was in the Sixties and things weren’t that built up. There were billboards and stuff, but it was still very vast… I’d seen pictures of cactus. It seemed so exotic to me. So getting out of the car at rest stops or just pulling off the side of the road, walking out in that and just having that heat hit you, it was something. The first time I ever saw a wild cactus was amazing. I just loved the desert. It left a huge mark on me. It still does. There’s that whole concept of being isolated and alone with your thoughts. There’s a feeling of comfort when it’s just you. Some of the lyrics of “Horse With No Name” were a little clumsy in a lot of those lines. I wrote that song in maybe two hours at the most, and most of the lyrics, I didn’t even adjust after the fact. I was new to songwriting and this was just pouring out of me and that was the theme I wanted to try and project that imagery. The grammar is based solely on almost a character’s voice that would convey that a little better than a proper-sounding voice. That line “there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.” I’ve never used that kind of dialect. We lived in Biloxi, Mississippi and there was occasion with a deeper Southern accent and then in Nebraska, you might get some farmer guys that might say, “Ain’t no one for to,” or something like that. It was purely another colorful way to express something, like taking on a character. But that kind of language works well in a song. Like “ain’t got no satisfaction.” It conveys something a little more practically because it can sound clinical or sterile when you really put together a perfectly well-constructed sentence without some emotion in there. So this is all part of this lineage of this song after all this time. I’ve read and heard and been told many things over the years about it, and it’s always great to think that it came as a little seed sitting in that bedroom once, alone, to be able to communicate things to people that they relate to. I’m really very proud of that. It’s true the song got banned from radio at one time because people said it was about heroin, which sometimes was called ‘horse.’ That was news to me. Living in England, I don’t ever recall that term. I think it was more of an American term. It might have been smack or dope or H. I have to believe some junkies out there listening to it went, “Hey man, this dude is like me. He’s one of us!” Everybody has their imagination about what bands have been doing. Plus those were the days when drugs were a little more rampant and stuff was going down. There’s all kinds of funny things that people thought it was about drugs. Sure, there was pot smoking and stuff going, and we were young guys experimenting. But there was no heroin or hard drugs or anything like that going on. One of my favorite quotes is from Randy Newman when he said, “That song is about a guy who thought he did acid.” We always like quoting Randy on that one. Sure, we had fun in the pubs. But as far as being intoxicated, I’m intoxicated by writing songs. That, in and of itself, is a meditation. When you get full bore into writing a song and creating that imagery lyrically, that is a drug. And we’ve been getting a buzz off this song for decades now. “A fly with a buzz.” “You’re inspired and intoxicated by the theme of the song, or the process of writing a song. You’re creating this thing out of nowhere that is going to ultimately have its own life. You do it for yourself to some degree, but you’re obviously presenting it to the world and you’re hoping that people enjoy it. It feels great to have written songs the whole world knows. It’s something you don’t have any control over. It’s one of those strange occurrences in my life, obviously. It’s something that never goes away. Are you a songwriter? Enter the American Songwriter Lyric Contest. “Horse with No Name”By Dewey Bunnell[Verse 1]On the first part of the journeyI was looking at all the lifeThere were plants and birds and rocks and thingsThere was sand and hills and ringsThe first thing I met was a fly with a buzzAnd the sky with no cloudsThe heat was hot and the ground was dryBut the air was full of sound [Chorus]I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no nameIt felt good to be out of the rainIn the desert, you can remember your name‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no painAfter two days in the desert sunMy skin began to turn redAfter three days in the desert funI was looking at a riverbedAnd the story it told of a river that flowedMade me sad to think it was deadI’ve been through the desert on a horse with no nameIt felt good to be out of the rainIn the desert, you can remember your name‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain[Verse 3]After nine days I let the horse run free‘Cause the desert had turned to seaThere were plants and birds and rocks and thingsThere was sand and hills and ringsThe ocean is a desert with its life undergroundAnd a perfect disguise aboveUnder the cities lies a heart made of groundBut the humans will give no love I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no nameIt felt good to be out of the rainIn the desert, you can remember your name‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain From “Horse with No Name,” by Dewey Bunnell. The Coronavirus take of “Horse With No Name” by Amsterdam couple Sem Jonkers, as the cowboy, and Mara van Nes, as the horse’s tail.

And the sky with no clouds. The heat was hot and the ground was dry. But the air was full of sound. I've been through the desert on a horse with no name. It felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert you can remember your name. 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

A Horse With No Name / Everyone I Meet Is From California, a Single by America. Released 12 January 1972 on Warner Bros. (catalog no. WB 7555; Vinyl 7"). Genres: Folk Rock, Folk Pop. Featured peformers: Ian Samwell (producer).

America About A Horse with No Name "A Horse with No Name" is a song written by Dewey Bunnell, and originally recorded by the folk rock band America. It was the band's first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States, and topped the charts in Canada, Finland, and the United States. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Year: 2007 4:13 232 Views The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz And the sky with no clouds The heat was hot and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la After two days in the desert sun My skin began to turn red After three days in the desert fun I was looking at a river bed And the story it told of a river that flowed Made me sad to think it was dead You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la After nine days I let the horse run free 'Cause the desert had turned to sea There were plants and birds and rocks and things there was sand and hills and rings The ocean is a desert with it's life underground And a perfect disguise above Under the cities lies a heart made of ground But the humans will give no love You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la Become A Better Singer In Only 30 Days, With Easy Video Lessons! America America is an English-American folk rock band, that originally consisted of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens, when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring No. 1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist. Their recording success stretched throughout the 1970s; some of the band's best known songs are "A Horse with No Name", "Sister Golden Hair" (both of which reached No. 1), "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man", "Daisy Jane", and "Lonely People". George Martin produced seven of their albums. more » Written by: Dewey Bunnell Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind Citation Use the citation below to add these lyrics to your bibliography: Missing lyrics by America? Know any other songs by America? Don't keep it to yourself!

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Dewey Bunnell of the band America wrote and sang lead on the song “A Horse With No Name.”(Photo by Mike Morsch) There’s a sign that makes the rounds on Facebook that frequently gets posted to my timeline. It reads: “All I’m saying is, at any point during that ride through the desert, he could have given that horse a name.” The reference is, of course, to the song “A Horse With No Name” by the band America. My friends know I am a longtime fan of the band, so that’s why this sign is frequently posted on my Facebook page. It turns out, though, that I have a little insight on this, thanks to the guy who wrote it. The song was written by Dewey Bunnell, who along with Gerry Beckley and Dan Peek, founded the band America in 1970. Its self-titled debut album, released in 1971, didn’t initially contain the song. But after “A Horse With No Name,” which featured Bunnell on lead vocals as well, became a hit and went all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the “America” album was re-released in 1972 with the track. But the controversy surrounding the song wasn’t that the horse didn’t have a name, it was that some radio stations refused to play it because of its supposed references to heroin use. “Horse” is a slang term for heroin. I first interviewed Bunnell in 2006, and subsequently two more times over the years: once about the 1974 album “Holiday,” which is featured in “The Vinyl Dialogues,” and again recently about the making of the 1975 album “Hearts,” which will be detailed in “The Vinyl Dialogues Volume II: Dropping the Needle,” due to be released in August 2015. And straight from the horse’s mouth, you might say, Bunnell has told me that “A Horse With No Name” is not about drugs. “Not at all. It actually has changed a little bit in my mind as the decades have gone by,” said Bunnell in the 2006 interview. “The central theme [of the song] was ‘solitary thinking in a peaceful place.’ The horse was really just a vehicle to get out there. I always loved the desert as a kid. ‘The heat was hot’ was an important feeling that I was trying to re-create there. [The song] was just a travelogue with an environmental message in there about saving the planet,” said Bunnell. Bunnell said that when the band shot the cover for its third album “Hat Trick,” which was released in 1973, the photo shoot did include horses and band members did go out into the desert for a couple days to get some shots. “We had fun, but I don’t recall the name of the horse I rode while I was out there,” said Bunnell. “A lot of horse people think I have a real working knowledge of the animal, but I don’t.” So there you have it. Even when Dewey Bunnell had the chance to actually ride a horse in the desert, he still didn’t give it a name. Next time I talk to Dewey, I’ll have to ask him flat out if in subsequent years, he’s ever thought if that horse he wrote about has a name.

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America’s “Horse With No Name” is founded in the narrator’s fond recollections of spending part of his childhood in the desert. And while there is some symbolism and metaphors involved, fans often attribute a deeper meaning to the song than is actually present. And in the process, they obscure the simplicity of it, as the actual theme it is based on is “solitary thinking in a peaceful place”. But there are some symbolic aspects of this song. For instance, the “desert” serves as more than a physical location but also represents a tranquil state of mind. And the “horse” is the means by which the singer enters the desert. So what can be conclusively ascertained and while the environment is harsh, the desert is still a place which the singer enjoys being. Indeed Dewey Bunnell even wrote this song while missing that environment due to the constant rain he was subject to in England. In fact this track was originally entitled “Desert Song” which, all things considered, is a more-fitting title. Indeed even the appellation of the titular character, the “horse with no name”, has no specific meaning. Inspiration behind “A Horse with No Name” Partial inspiration behind this track, as aforementioned, was Dewey Bunnell’s childhood memories of the deserts of America he acquired while living with his dad. At that time, his dad was stationed at an Air Force base in California. More specifically he, his dad and his brother used to take road trips through the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Additional inspirations were a Salvador Dali painting of a desert and a Escher picture depicting a horse. Facts about “A Horse With No Name” Warner Brothers Records first released this track in Europe on 12 November 1971. It came out later in the United States on 12 January was the first single America ever dropped. And interestingly, it went on to be their most was a controversy surrounding this song in that many accused Dewey Bunnell, the song’s singer and sole writer, as biting the sound of Neil Young. And to help put this into perspective, it was “A Horse With No Name” that actually knocked Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” out of the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Bunnell has not denied that he was “inspired” by Young yet made a conscientious effort not to imitate him. But at the end of the day, he went on to insinuate that he and Young naturally sound Jackson (1958-2009) created a song (which was released posthumously) that was inspired by “A Horse with No Name” entitled “A Place with No Name”(2014).Back in the more-puritan days of the 1970’s, “A Horse with No Name” was actually banned by some radio stations in the United States. And why? Simply because many people though that the titular “horse” was actually a reference to heroin. How “A Horse With No Name” fared on the charts “A Horse with No Name” had quite a run in Europe, appearing as high as number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and topping the charts in Ireland. However, it fared arguably better in North America, reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100. At the top of this chart, it stayed for three weeks. It also topped Canada’s RPM chart. It has also been certified gold in the United States. Appearance in Pop Media “A Horse with No Name” has been featured on various pop media throughout the years. Examples include the following: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)Friends (season 5, episode 22) Breaking Bad (season 3, episode 2) which was named “Caballo Sin Nombre” (which translate to “Horse Without Name”). Here are 30 great horse songs. Appaloosa. By Gino Vanelli. ’70s Canadian crooner sings: “Appaloosa, runnin’ wild in the dead of the night. Appaloosa, you’re the message of love and light.”. Crazy Horses. By Osmonds Bros. Rock out in early ’70s with wild equines.

On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz And the sky with no clouds The heat was hot and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain After two days in the desert sun My skin began to turn red And after three days in the desert fun I was looking at a river bed And the story it told of a river that flowed Made me sad to think it was dead You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain After nine days I let the horse run free 'Cause the desert had turned to sea There were plants and birds and rocks and things There was sand and hills and rings The ocean is a desert with it's life underground And a perfect disguise above Under the cities lies a heart made of ground But the humans will give no love You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain Lyrics submitted by Ice A Horse With No Name Lyrics as written by Dewey Bunnell Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Lyrics powered by LyricFind Add your thoughts Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!

(You see) I've been through the desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain A Horse with No Name In the desert You can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la A Horse with No Name

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Home Features Classic Rock What price would any sane bookmaker offer on three American youths meeting one another in the UK, scoring a hit with a single that wasn’t even on their debut album’s first pressing, then becoming one of the biggest-selling acts of the 70s? Probably very long odds. But in fact it’s exactly what happened when guitarist/singer Dewey Bunnell, pianist/singer Gerry Beckley and guitarist/singer Dan Peek – all sons of US servicemen – crossed paths during the late price would any sane bookmaker offer on three American youths meeting one another in the UK, scoring a hit with a single that wasn’t even on their debut album’s first pressing, then becoming one of the biggest-selling acts of the 70s? Probably very long odds. But in fact it’s exactly what happened when guitarist/singer Dewey Bunnell, pianist/singer Gerry Beckley and guitarist/singerDan Peek – all sons of US servicemen –crossed paths during the late 60s.“Our fathers were stationed at an Air Force base in West Ruislip, just outside of London,” says Bunnell, composer of the song that would change their lives. Bunnell was actually born in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate.“We were fortunate to be in England at such a pivotal time in music,” he observes, “but our first album was also influenced by the best of the American bands – that whole magical, multi-layered vocal harmony thing.”The trio decided to call themselves America, and got a deal with Warner Brothers after a gig at London’s Roundhouse and some radio exposure from Bob Harris. Enlisting hot session men Joe Osbourne and Hal Blaine on bass and drums, they recorded their debut album at London’s Trident Studios. Released in January 1972, it did moderately of the material that appeared on America had been written on borrowed acoustic guitars, as the trio tapped into the slumbering West Coast zeitgeist of The Eagles, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Linda Ronstadt. However, the group’s manager believed even bigger things were possible and sent them to Morgan Studios to add some extra Story Behind The Song: I Want You To Want Me by Cheap TrickThe Story Behind The Songs: Feel Like Makin' Love by Bad CompanyThe Story Behind The Song: Roll Away The Stone by Mott The HoopleThe Story Behind The Song: The Logical Song by SupertrampAmong them was a Bunnell tune called Desert Song that they had thought lacked hit potential. Later re-titled A Horse With No Name, it went on to top the American singles chart for three weeks in early 1972 and reached in the UK.“Everybody had a song called I Need You in mind as the single,” Bunnell chuckles. “It was initially felt that A Horse With No Name was good but perhaps a little too quirky. At first it felt like a bit of a novelty song. It was a shock that it became so popular.”Neil Young grumbled a little at the tune’s familiarity when A Horse With No Name displaced his own Heart Of Gold from the top of the US chart. Bunnell shrugs: “I never shied away from the fact that I was inspired by Neil, who was and remains a great hero.”With its lyrics of feeling ‘good to be out of the rain’, the meaning of the song was rooted in escape from the drudgery of everyday life in the city – not promoting drug use, as a Kansas City radio station that banned it wrongly assumed [‘horse’ being a slang term for heroin].“I’d spent time in the desert and always loved nature,” Bunnell says, “and being in rainy old England, maybe I mentally gravitated back towards all of that.”America notched up several more hits after relocating back to the US, and in 1975 achieved the considerable feat of outselling every other Warner Bros artist in their homeland. And yet a full decade separates the group’s other two British chart entries, Ventura Highway [from the trio’s second album, Homecoming, in 1972], and 1982’s You Can Do Magic.“We let things slide in Britain,” Bunnell rues. “We left it so darned long that we couldn’t get a gig in London.”In what Bunnell describes as “the first stumble of our career”, Baptist-raised Dan Peek quit in 1977 for religious reasons. But the remaining two ploughed on through both good times [which include being produced by George Martin and Janet Jackson borrowing the riff to Ventura Highway for her 2001 single Someone To Call My Lover] and bad [winding up on an independent label; playing in South Africa during the no-go days of apartheid].Although they did once try to drop A Horse With No Name from their live set, after promoters intervened it was reinstated and remains there they’ve released a Christmas album and a slew of compilations and live records, America’s creativity seemed to dry up after 1998’s Human Nature album. But help came along when celebrity fans Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha and Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger stepped in to co-produce their album Here & Now in 2007, which featured various guests including Ryan is mindful of the fact that people associate the band America with the likes of Bread, the Doobie Brothers and Chicago, but insists his band’s live show betrays the undesirable label of ‘soft rock’.“Being called ‘middle of the road’ used to make me flinch,” he admits, “but I’d like to think that we’ve carved out our own place in music history.” Dave Ling was a co-founder of Classic Rock magazine. His words have appeared in a variety of music publications, including RAW, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer, Prog, Rock Candy, Fireworks and Sounds. Dave’s life was shaped in 1974 through the purchase of a copy of Sweet’s album ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’, along with early gig experiences from Status Quo, Rush, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Yes and Queen. As a lifelong season ticket holder of Crystal Palace FC, he is completely incapable of uttering the word ‘Br***ton’.

By coincidence, it was "A Horse with No Name" that replaced Young's "Heart of Gold" at the number 1 spot on the U.S. pop chart. "A Horse with No Name" is a song written by Dewey Bunnell, and originally recorded by the band America. It was the band's first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the US, and

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