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1. This 1970 Chicago song is about the difficulties in songwriting, specifically staying awake through the night trying to write songs.
2. This 1981 Foreigner song is about a young man who couldn't afford to attend a rock concert. Standing outside the venue, he could still hear the music, which inspired him to become a rock star himself.
3. This Moody Blues song is about a rock star who meets people all around the world and uses their social issues to write and sing songs.
4. What former Beatle and his band had a hit with the song "Silly Love Songs"?
5. This soft rock song was written as a tribute to the writer's father, a musician and founder of his own band.
6. This 1976 song is about a band that played in bars then slept in their cars between gigs before being discovered by a record executive. However, it's not autobiographical, since the band had a major record contract before their first live gig.
7. This song is a cautionary tale about the dangers of drugs and alcohol in the music business. It was influenced by the deaths of young rock stars Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix.
8. This song's music and lyrics were written in critique of hypocrisy and greed within the music business.
9. This 1978 song is about a Dixieland jazz band that the writer saw performing in a near-empty pub in South London.
10. This unusually poignant 1976 song by Kiss is a rock star's lament that he can't return home to his wife because he and his bandmates are having difficulty finding their sound.
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