It's almost always fun to pick out potential wedding songs, but how about a funeral song? A swan song, if you will. Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is the most requested song at British funerals, according toNME, citing figures fromCo-operative Funeralcare'schart. In second place was Sarah Br...
a sincerity, a love and a passion for show business and what he was doing. We wrote three songs, including “This Is It” and “Love Never Felt So Good.” Years later, Drake showed up at my house to work on another track, “Don’t Matter To Me.” Working with him was different ...
He set only two conditions: All the songs had to be British, and the arrangements had to be by Robert Farnon. Sinatra had long admired Farnon, as does almost every serious orchestrator. André Previn used to call him "the world's greatest writer for strings". When a young John Williams,...
The song is also said to have been a favourite of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic – he would play it in his cell at increasingly loud volumes during his trial for crimes against humanity in 2002. In 2005 a survey by Co-Operative Funeralcare put My Way at the top of songs mo...
On “We are the World” alone, performers included Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson –“P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing” – and Donna Summer –“Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) – a...
On “We are the World” alone, performers included Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson –“P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)”– and Donna Summer –“Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) – and had songs sampled by...
He co-wrote hits for Jackson –“P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)”– and Donna Summer –“Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) – and had songs sampled by Tupac Shakur, Kanye West and other rappers. He even composed the theme song for the sitcom “Sa...
On “We are the World” alone, performers included Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson –“P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)”– and Donna Summer –“Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trig...
On “We are the World” alone, performers included Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson –“P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)”– and Donna Summer –“Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) – and had...
On “We are the World” alone, performers included Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. He co-wrote hits for Jackson –“P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)”– and Donna Summer –“Love Is in Control (Finger on the...