

He wrote it about the casualties of the music business people like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as well as others who didn't make it. According to Bad Company lead singer Paul Rodgers, who wrote it, the song is a warning. "This tells the story of young boy who grows up to be a rock star, but succumbs to rock and roll excess and dies of a drug overdose. Kinda obvious he wasn't trying to predict his own death.

"Johnny died one night.bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his head". Only if we could repeat the decades past, once again, people today, have no idea what they have missed, they think they have it all and better, but we who lived back in the 60's through the 80's, and still live today, we who have lived during both times, we know the real truthĪnd, Nostalgia, has much personal feelings and a strong meaning to many these days.Ī sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal association, and Nostalgia can bring tears to the eyes of any When the, Our Nation and People had One God, The God of the Bible, and only He was Welcome in the USA.īut living and growing up today, many more toys and ways to have-get pleasure, many distractions, troubles, worries, and good has gotten less and evil has increased, people are lovers of self, and all mixed up when it comes to Truths, People today are lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, and many are turning to false gods and to satan. early 90's was the best of times, no cell phones, no smart phone, no computers, no electric cars, people spoke the truths, people had Integrity, cared about and cared for each other, had Empathy and for most, there word was there bond, people talked face to face- eye to eye, families ate at the same table at the same time, people could be trusted back then. Life, Living in and Growing up, back in the 1960's, 70's, 80's. Oh oh oh, Don't you know that you are a shooting star,ĭon't you know, yeah, don't you know', Don't you know thatĭon't you know that you are a shooting star, Warm summer day, If you listen to the wind you can still hear him play Johnny died one night, died in his bed, Bottle of whiskey, Johnny looked around him and said, 'Well, I made the big time at last'.ĭon't you know, don't you know, Don't you know that you areĭon't you know, oh, yeah, Don't you know that you areĪnd all the world will love you just as long,ĭon't you know that you are a shooting star, Don't you know, yeah,ĭon't you know that you are a shooting star, now,Īnd all the world will love you just as long, As long you are you. Watching the world go by, surprising it goes so fast. Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing the song. Johnny made a record, Went straight up to number one,
