On this day in 1983, blues legend and modern music icon, Muddy Waters, peacefully passed away in his sleep at 70 years old.

Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's legendary E Street Band compared this four-piece's debut to the arrival of alien life forms to Earth.

Though the refrains in these hits are lacking in words, their insatiable catchiness makes up for it. Revisit these wordless rock refrains.