Broken Arrow

Album: Turn It Up (Re-Released Edition) (2010)
Charted: 12
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Songfacts®:

  • This pop-rock ballad is the lead single from the re-released version of English singer-songwriter Pixie Lott's debut album, Turn It Up. The song was premiered on August 24, 2010 on BBC Radio One.
  • The song was crafted by New York based songwriter/producer Toby Gad, whose CV also includes Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy" and Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry."
  • This is not the first song that is called "Broken Arrow." Other tracks with the same title include:
    A 1959 single by Chuck Berry
    A track by Buffalo Springfield from their 1967 album Buffalo Springfield Again.
    A track by Robbie Robertson from his 1987 self-titled album, which was covered in 1991 by Rod Stewart on his 1991 LP, Vagabond Heart.

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