
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. I heard 'blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah'.
SOUNDGARDEN BLACK HOLE SUN TV
It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35–40 minute drive from Seattle. In 2014, Cornell explained the song's origins to Uncut Magazine: "Black Hole Sun" was written by frontman Chris Cornell. "Black Hole Sun" was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album A-Sides and also appeared on the 2010 compilation album Telephantasm. Worldwide, the single reached the top 10 in Australia, Canada, France and Ireland, while in Iceland, it reached number one. Despite peaking at number two on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, "Black Hole Sun" finished as the number-one track of 1994 for that listing. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent a total of seven weeks at number one. It is one of the band's most popular and recognizable songs. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, the song was released in 1994 as the third single from the band's fourth studio album Superunknown (1994). " Black Hole Sun" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. For the hypothetical astronomical object sometimes called a 'black hole star', see Quasi-star. For the Vampire Diaries episode, see Black Hole Sun (The Vampire Diaries).
