Bon Jovi’s 1984 first album contains a song called “Shot Through The Heart” — not to be confused with his later song “You Give Love A Bad Name”, which became a massive hit two years later. Sales for the first album skyrocketed due to the ambiguous but unrelated song titles.

The phrase “heavy metal thunder” in Steppenwolf’s 1968 hit “Born to Be Wild” is one of the earliest uses of the term “heavy metal” in a musical context — predating the musical genre itself by about two years.

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