“It’s our Stairway To Heaven, our Hotel California. It’s a song that we’re never going to able to duplicate”: The No 1 rock anthem inspired by a “nasty” breakup – written by a singer who dreamed of being in Metallica

Nickelback.

Chad Kroeger will always remember the day he wrote How You Remind Me, the song that gave his band Nickelback their big breakthrough.

In an interview with Q magazine in 2001 – when How You Remind Me was at No 1 in the US and in the band’s native Canada – Kroeger recalled how he wrote the song as he was breaking up with a girlfriend who was still living with him at the time.