If Goo Goo Dolls don’t ring a bell, ‘Iris’ will. Written days before lead singer John Rzeznik was considering leaving the band in 1998, the song became an instant hit. It stayed at the top of the charts in the US for 18 record-breaking weeks, was nominated for 3 Grammy awards and was included on the triple-platinum album ‘Dizzy Up the Girl’. No doubt, everyone has heard the powerful lines: “And I don’t want the world to see me / ‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand”. Whether belted out at karaoke bars by the obnoxiously drunk, howled out after break-ups or just played on the radio by DJ
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