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OPEN-MIC SONGBOOK GOO GOO DOLLS IRIS

espite enduring a lengthy bout of writer’s block, it didn’t take frontman John Rzeznik long to write the Goo Goo Dolls’ career-defining hit single, Iris. “It probably took me an hour or two,” he revealed to. Not bad for a song that would go on to top charts in several countries and still be getting airplay two decades on.

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