STORY BEHIND THE SONG

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Finding a friend’s diary and reading their innermost thoughts is usually an invasion of privacy. All’s forgiven, though, if it leads to a great song. Producer Rick Rubin found a highly personal poem about the loneliness of addiction tucked away in Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis’s notebooks and persuaded him to record it. Now it’s one of a select few songs 30 years or older that has been streamed one billion times on Spotify.