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    Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs
    Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs
    Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs
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    Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs

    By Laura Roberts

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    Ever listened to a love song and felt like it was written just for you? Have you ever helped yourself get through a tough breakup by listening to your favorite song? Maybe you and your current flame have one song that feels like it simply belongs to you as a couple?

    If you've ever been in love, experienced an unrequited crush, or simply longed for a relationship spun from a pop song, this book's for you!

    Pop songs pondered in this book include:
    *Barenaked Ladies, "One Week"
    *Brick, “Dazz”
    *The Buzzcocks, "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)"
    *The Commodores, “Brick House”
    *Alice Cooper, “I’m Eighteen”
    *Neil Diamond, "Forever in Blue Jeans"
    *Bob Dylan, "It Ain't Me, Babe"
    *Jay Ferguson, "Thunder Island"
    *Fleetwood Mac, "Silver Springs"
    *PJ Harvey + Thom Yorke, "This Mess We're In"
    *Elton John, “Your Song”
    *OutKast, "Hey Ya!"
    *Bonnie Raitt, "Shadow of Doubt"
    *The Replacements, "Sadly Beautiful"
    *Linda Ronstadt, “Blue Bayou”
    *Frank Sinatra, “Strangers in the Night”
    *Phoebe Snow, “Poetry Man”
    *Spice Girls, "Wannabe"
    *The Spinners, “Could it Be I’m Falling in Love”
    *Wall of Voodoo, “Can’t Make Love”
    *The Who, “You Better You Bet”
    *Neil Young, “Heart of Gold"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherButtontapper Press
    Release dateFeb 14, 2016
    ISBN9781310779510
    Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs
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    Laura Roberts

    Laura Roberts can leg-press an average-sized sumo wrestler, has nearly been drowned off the coast of Hawaii, and tells lies for a living. She is the founding editor of Black Heart Magazine, the San Diego Chapter Leader for the Nonfiction Authors Association, and publishes whatever strikes her fancy at Buttontapper Press. She currently lives in an Apocalypse-proof bunker in sunny SoCal with her artist husband and their literary kitties, and can be found on Twitter @originaloflaura. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Laura has penned the alphabetical travel guides Montreal from A to Z and San Diego from A to Z, offbeat writing guides A Cheater’s Guide to NaNoWriMo and Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist, and the satirical adventure tale, Ninjas of the 512. She is also the editor of the collection Haiku for Lovers, and the forthcoming anthology Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs (February 2016).

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