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TIL that Goo Goo Dolls frontman Jon Rzeznik came up for the title of the band’s 1998 smash hit “Iris” after seeing the name of country singer Iris Dement in a copy of LA Weekly. The name was chosen despite nobody named Iris being in the lyrics or “City of Angels,” the film the song was written for.

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