Steve Harwell: How Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’ Got a Second Wind From Memes

Long before it became a soundtrack nugget and an internet meme, it was just a rock band’s attempt to land a radio hit. But the long path to evergreen status for “All Star,” the 1999 track by the California alternative band Smash Mouth, whose founding lead singer, Steve Harwell, died on Monday at…

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