There are many things one can do on a Tuesday night. Some people choose to do sports, others might be in a book club, and some have to do the weekly maintenance. In the early 1990ies, a group of musicians around Kevin Gilbert used the night to meet in Pasadena, California and casually write and play songs together. When Gilbert started dating singer Sheryl Crow the club soon turned into a means to develop her “second first” album – the first one had been scrapped, as both her and her label found it lacking – which when eventually completed was named Tuesday Night Music Club after the group.

Unfortunately the relationship turned sour when Crow claimed all songwriting credits for herself in an interview and disputes about copyrights broke out. The album had a slow start, with three singles released without gaining much popularity (among them Leaving Las Vegas, which later would become quite a big hit as well), until All I Wanna Do was released as the fourth one. Ironically, that song which finally helped the album to it’s breakthrough in itself is based on a poem by Wyn Cooper, who earned quite a bit of royalties for it – but faced a lawsuit of his own over the first line: “All I want is to have a little fun before I die”, the inspiration for the poem, happened to originally have been a line uttered by his friend Bill Ripley while they were out drinking…

Broken glass notwithstanding the song – and eventually the album – went on to be hugely successful and Crow would go on to have a string of hits. As well as famous boyfriends, among them Eric Clapton, Owen Wilson and Lance Armstrong.