They never wrote back. "I cried every night about that," Elliott told The Guardian in 2001. "Now I'm friends with Janet. But sometimes we'll be in a club together and I'll find myself thinking, 'But you never wrote me back when I needed you.'" More From Biography The media ...
Wrote A Song For Everyone ▶ Don't Look Now ▶ Effigy ▶ Bootleg ▶ My Baby Left Me ▶ The Night Time Is The Right Time ▶ Lookin' For A Reason ▶ Walking On The Water ▶ Album: Green River Released on:1969-08-03 Number of Songs:14 Green River ▶ Commotion ▶ Tom...
but it became a hit largely because it sounded like a bonus cut off of Missy Elliott’s futuristic rap rompSupa Dupa Fly, and for good reason: Missy wrote it, Timbaland produced it, and their creeping beats and cool delivery are all over this tune. Hell, Missy even raps on the ...
Brian Mayof Queen contains multitudes. When he's not ripping a guitar solo, you might find him studying Einstein's theory of relativity or consulting with NASA. In 1975, May had not yet earned his PhD in astrophysics, but he found a way to combine his interests in a song he wrote call...
I Wrote It ▶ Not to Me on That Night ▶ Wasted Summers ▶ Sister Mary ▶ It Will Be ▶ The Death Valley Vipers ▶ The Bricklayer's Story ▶ A Pretty Sad Excuse ▶ Album: Let's Face It Released on:1997-01-01 Number of Songs:12 Noise Brigade ▶ The Rascal King ▶...
He wrote the song after going through a difficult breakup of his own. He wanted to write a song that captured the feeling of trying to make a relationship work, and he succeeded. The song has resonated with fans all over the world, and it’s become a fan favorite....
And that’s Missy Elliott. The cockiness of “Work It” is just so damn good. “I’d like to get to know ya so I could show ya/Put the pussy on ya”—that lyric is all about the ownership of being a woman. The vulgarness. For a woman to be that herself and to say what ...
A few days after his star-making set at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, Redding stayed on a houseboat in Sausalito, California, while he played the Fillmore in San Francisco. He wrote the first verse to “Dock of the Bay” on that boat, then completed the song with guitarist St...
Andre 3000 wrote his verse about a night he almost went to Charles’ Disco as a teenager, but found himself too drunk to walk in the door—“So all the stuff I said after that,” he told an interviewer later, “was made up.” The production has the wooziness of a dream or a ...
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in New York but moved with her family to Detroit, Michigan at the age of 5. Working with Timbaland and Missy Elliott, Aaliyah was unstoppable with hits like "Try Again" and "Back and Fourth." She was just making her name as a promising actor when she pas...