Friday is the 25th anniversary of the song’s release, and the Counting Crows happen to play Stir Cove on Thursday. “Omaha,” the album’s second track, was actually written years earlier.

"Prisencolinensinainciusol" by Italian singer Adriano Celentano was released in 1972 and is complete gibberish that is meant to sound like English in the style of American rock music.

For lead singer Adam Duritz, the success of Mr. Jones came as a total surprise, but there was also something prophetic about the song, seeing as he wrote it about his desire to be famous.

It's true. Adriano Celentano's 1972 song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" was, in fact, a deliberate attempt to create a song with nonsense lyrics that sounded like American English to an Italian audience.

The song's name is "Prisencolinensinainciusol." That's not a typo; in 1972 Italian pop star Adriano Celentano wanted to mimic what English sounds like to non-English speakers.