With its soaring chorus and infectious power-pop hooks, generations of listeners have embraced it as an uplifting anthem about taking chances and giving life everything you've got. But according to songwriter Eric Carmen, the song was actually written with a very different message in mind.
"I was at Brush High School and I remember seeing guys in the hallway, they're singing The Who's 'Magic Bus' and then pumping their fists in the air," Carmen said in a 2014 interview. "I thought that I wanted to write a song like that."
"Then one day I was in the drugstore and I saw a paperback with the title, 'Go All the Way' by Dan McGraw," Carmen explained. "That's when my antenna went up. I thought I might be able to use that. This was at the time when the Stones were on Ed Sullivan, and they made them change the lyrics from 'Let's Spend the Night Together' to 'Let's Spend Some Time Together.' I noticed that on the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' record they could get away with racy lyrics like that because of how they looked and the melodic way they sang the suggestive stuff. They slid it by the censors. So my idea was to put those words in the mouth of the girl. It was a different approach. That made it more acceptable
"He heard the whole thing in his head and he relayed what he was hearing to us," drummer Jim Bonfanti told Rolling Stone.
The controversy did little to slow its success.
Over the decades, the song has enjoyed a remarkable second life.
More than 50 years after its release, "Go All the Way" remains the song most closely associated with the Raspberries and one of Eric Carmen's greatest songwriting achievements. What began as an idea from a 19 year-old aspiring songwriter ultimately became a timeless rock classic, one whose upbeat spirit continues to inspire listeners, even as its true meaning remains cleverly hidden beneath the surface.
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