Guitarist Kim Thayil said that the Leslie model 16 speaker was perfect for the song as "it's very Beatlesque and has a distinctive sound. He used a Gretsch guitar to write the song, and commented, "I wrote the song thinking the band wouldn't like it-then it became the biggest hit of the summer." Cornell came up with the song while using a Leslie speaker. Ĭornell said that he wrote the song in about 15 minutes. Then I wrote the lyrics and that was similar, a stream of consciousness based on the feeling I got from the chorus and title. The next day I brought it into the real world, assigning a couple of key changes in the verse to make the melodies more interesting. I got home and whistled it into a Dictaphone. I spent a lot of time spinning those melodies in my head so I wouldn't forget them. I thought that would make an amazing song title, but what would it sound like? It all came together, pretty much the whole arrangement including the guitar solo that's played beneath the riff. I heard 'blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah'. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35–40 minute drive from Seattle. In 2014, Cornell explained the song's origins to Uncut Magazine: "Black Hole Sun" was written by frontman Chris Cornell. "Black Hole Sun" was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album A-Sides and also appeared on the 2010 compilation album Telephantasm. Worldwide, the single reached the top 10 in Australia, Canada, France, and Ireland, while in Iceland, it reached number one. Despite peaking at number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, "Black Hole Sun" finished as the number-one track of 1994 for that listing. Considered to be the band's signature song, it topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, where it spent a total of seven weeks at number one. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, the song was released in 1994 as the third single from the band's fourth studio album, Superunknown (1994). " Black Hole Sun" is a song by American rock band Soundgarden. For the hypothetical astronomical object sometimes called a 'black hole star', see Quasi-star. For the Vampire Diaries episode, see Black Hole Sun (The Vampire Diaries).
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