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Originally Posted by michelej1
[B]Rock Factoid: The song was inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way.”
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It's hard to believe that Fleetwood Mac in any way influenced Van Halen. Any more information on this? Was it something a member of Van Halen once claimed? There's no musical similarity, so the influence was either more abstract ("Hearing one anthem energized us to want to write another") or perhaps pertained to something more personal ("My girlfriend & I broke up & GYOW was on the radio, & I wanted us to get back together so I wrote another song").