“I sat down at the piano and started this song about a woman that was involved with birds and magic”: The classic Fleetwood Mac hit that Stevie Nicks wrote in just 10 minutes!

Stevie Nicks.

The annals of popular music are scattered with examples of songs that have been allegedly written in minutes and gone on to resonate with audiences across the globe for decades and generations to come.

What’d I Say was reportedly written by Ray Charles at a 1958 gig in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, when he found himself 12 minutes short of material and with an expectant audience waiting to dance.