| "Million Dollar Riff" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Skyhooks | ||||
| from the album Straight in a Gay Gay World | ||||
| B-side | "Forging Ahead" | |||
| Released | November 1975 | |||
| Studio | TCS Studios, Melbourne | |||
| Genre | Glam rock | |||
| Length | 3:51 | |||
| Label | Mushroom Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Greg Macainsh | |||
| Producer(s) | Duke Wilson | |||
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"Million Dollar Riff" is a song by Australian band Skyhooks, released in November 1975 as the lead single from the band's third studio album, Straight in a Gay Gay World. The song peaked at number six in Australia.
The song incorporates riffs from other hit songs, including from the Skyhooks' own "Horror Movie", plus the worldwide hits "Satisfaction", "Smoke on the Water", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Day Tripper", "Gloria", and Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode".[1] It also includes lyrical allusions to Berry's "Little Queenie" ("Meanwhile, I was still..."), and Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang" ("Ooh, Ah. Ooh, Ah").[2]