Smokey wrote Being With You for Kim but his manager persuaded him to record it himself and he ended up in the No 2 spot behind Kim’s monster hit. Ray Charles – Them That Got 1962 Always a winner Ray Charles had it all when it comes to an encyclopedia of music talent, barrelhouse,...
“They don't want the people who they have in the industry to have to go up against me,” she wrote on Instagram. “But why? If you're great, if a song is great, you should be able to be put together in the same category.” Mickey Bernal/NBC via Getty Images Toby Keith Toby ...
To this day, I remember my mum's letters. It all (1)___in December 1941. Every night she wrote to my brother Johnny, who had been (2)___that summer. We had not heard from him since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Mum claimed that there was a direct (3)___from the brain...
Ice fronted the band and wrote the songs, while Ernie jammed. The rapper-turned-metal-singer discussed his musical inspirations for Body Count: So we put the band together and I used the three bands that were my favourites at the time to set the tone. We used the impending doom of a...
This movie was originally titled "Slammer" until Madonna wrote "Who's That Girl" and decided to use it as the theme song. The song went to #1 on the Billboard chart in August 1987. Goofs When Loudon flips through the prenuptial agreement, the first few text pages he flips through are ...
Mann began her career in the 1980s as the bassist and a vocalist for 'Til Tuesday, and wrote their top-ten single "Voices Carry". She released her debut solo album, Whatever, in 1993, and has released several albums since. In 1999, Mann recorded songs for the soundtrack to the Paul ...
‘A little! That’s good. Love is universal. Limitless. So even a little is enough.’ I wrote a song called ‘A Little Is Enough’, and recorded it using the same system as I’d used on ‘Let My Love Open the Door’. Although I’d always thought my love songs were terrible, I...
Mercury, who wrote “We Are the Champions,”“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and the classic that gave the film its title, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003 along with the other members of Queen. Queen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 and...
32.Johnny B. Truant– Writer whose humor, irreverence, and inspiration hits right between the eyes Johnny’s story is fascinating to me, which is why he’s one of my idols. (Not in a creepy stalker sense but in an admiring sense.) Johnny has transformed his online business several times...
After LaBeouf’s audition with the Dune star, director "Luca [Guadagnino] and I had been blown away," he wrote in his 2021 memoir, Solid Ivory, according to GQ. "The reading by the two young actors had been sensational; they made a very convincing hot couple." ...