FASCINATION ABOUT GREATEST SONG EVER

On October 8th, 1963, whilst on tour, Cooke and members of his entourage were being arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace once they attempted to sign-up in a white motel — an incident mirrored during the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-old son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in

that stood out Among the many rest. Lyrically, the song experienced a depth to it that allowed it for being interpreted either as a religious track or one particular full of sexual innuendos.“I sat down around the mattress with my keyboard before me, discovered a drum pattern, switched my minimal cassette player on, and wrote ‘Desires’ in abo