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House of the Rising Sun
The Animals

"House of the Rising Sun" almost didn't survive fifteen minutes in a London studio.
The Animals turned a centuries-old folk warning into a four-minute dare that pop radio wasn't built for, then spent decades fighting over who actually wrote the arrangement.
Did you know the so-called is really about a father's ruin, not a building?
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