Barry and Robin Gibb wrote the song for Streisand but the former told Billboard he gives the artist most of the credit. “At least 80 per cent of the success of the record belongs to her.” 17 “Someone You Loved” – Lewis Capaldi | Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for three weeks (2019) ...
"It was, like, the first really good song I ever wrote,"Fogertysaid of "Proud Mary," which began a run of five consecutive Top Three singles forCCR. He wrote the song, later unforgettably covered by Ike and Tina Turner, after his Army discharge: "I was fooling with the chord changes ...
The Beatles were in their early 20s when they wrote “I Saw Her Standing There.” That song is about being in love with a 17-year-old girl. And Gene Simmons was almost 30 when he sang "Christine Sixteen." Despite the controversy surrounding a much older man obsessing about a much ...
"That's a song Keith and I really wrote together," Mick Jagger later revealed. "We were on a holiday in Italy. In this very beautiful hill town, Positano, for a few nights. Why we should write such a dark song in this beautiful, sunny place, I really don't know." 'Doo Doo Doo...
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The Bee Gees hit "Stayin' Alive" brings to mind disco balls and John Travolta in a white three-piece suit. The band wrote the song for theSaturday Night Feversoundtrack, but that didn't mean it was all fluff. Band member Robin Gibbexplained, "The subject matter of 'Stayin' Alive' ...
The future new wave icon Lene Lovich wrote these uncredited ecological lyrics. She’d soon use her fame to raise consciousness for animal rights. –Barry Walters Listen: Cerrone: “Supernature” See also: Space: “Carry On, Turn Me On” / Gino Soccio: “Dancer” 186. The Whispers: “...
Trevor Gordon/The Bee Gees, “Little Miss Rhythm & Blues.”The Bee Gees, and especially Barry Gibb, wrote lots of songs in their early days they didn’t manage to jam onto their own prolific releases. Even before they moved from Australia to England in 1967, they’d already placed a lo...
Fellow Australian Samantha Sang had been around a while before “Emotion” became a #3 pop hit in 1978, she just hadn’t been all that successful. Nothing had even entered the Top 100 in the US. before Barry and Robin Gibb wrote “Emotion” for her, though it’s pretty hard to...
1 duet with Dolly Parton, “Islands in the Stream,” written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. “The Bee Gees’ tracks were always a little slick but, without exception, exciting,” Rogers wrote in Luck or Something Like It — though he also added, “I could have ...