Complex sentence: But the song was just what the people wanted to hear and he performed it several times, even giving to the song to a friend of his who was deployed to Iraq, His friend stated that he and his crew played the song every day.
Split into simpler sentences: But the song was just what the people wanted to hear and he performed it several times. He gave the song to a friend of his who was deployed to Iraq, His friend stated that he and his crew played the song every day.