May 13, 1994 –
Soundgarden released the second single off their album Superunknown, Black Hole Sun, on this date.
Chris Cornell got an idea for this song while driving home from Bear Creek Studio. This studio is near Seattle. Soundgarden were recording a version of New Damage there for a charity album. He shared with Uncut magazine August 2014: “I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville. It is a 35-40 minute drive from Seattle. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I heard ‘blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah’. I thought that would make an amazing song title, but what would it sound like? It all came together, pretty much the whole arrangement including the guitar solo that’s played beneath the riff.”
The Haus of Dcaligari 