“The Devil’s just blowing smoke. If you listen to that, there’s just a bunch of noise. There’s no melody to it, there’s no nothing.” »read more
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Will Jennings wrote this with Richard Kerr. Jennings is a lyricist who has worked with Steve Winwood, Roy Orbison, Eric Clapton and many others. Kerr is a pianist who wrote the music for Barry Manilow's first hit "Mandy" and teamed up with Jennings to write Manilow's songs "Looks Like We Made It" and "Somewhere In The Night."
Jennings: "Sometime, sooner or later, you reach a height that you never reached and you never will reach again - and this is the story."
Explaining what fuels his songwriting, Jennings says, "You have to sit down and write sometime, but it all comes out of life and experience, like any other kind of writing. I travel, look into things. Go out and listen to music. Go to plays. Go to places I haven't been and places I like to re-visit. Have a good time, drink wine, eat good food, stay up late, dance." (Thanks to Will Jennings for speaking with us about this song. Read his full interview in the songwriter interviews.)
This won the 1979 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Warwick also won that year for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Déjà Vu."
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Comments:
Classic song with sooo many memories tied to it. I just can remember the name of the album (CD) this song was on.
- Jeff, Gary, IN