The song “Iris,” originally recorded for the “City of Angels” soundtrack, spent 18 weeks at the top of Billboard’s airplay charts. Since forming in 1985, the Goo Goo Dolls have sold over 9 million records, a large chunk coming from the power-pop classic “Dizzy Up the Girl” (1998), which sold over 3 million copies. “ doesn’t really mean anything … The first name was bad, so we moved on to another bad name, got 15,000 fans, and were afraid to change it … At the time, we thought was just really inappropriate for what we were doing in that post-punk era that we were sort of wallowing around in.” “That’s how the folklore goes,” bassist and vocalist Robby Takac explained before a recent gig at Sacred Heart University.
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