Leaving Las Vegas

Album: Tuesday Night Music Club (1993)
Charted: 66 60
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: David Francis Baerwald, David Jeffrey Ricketts, Kevin M. Gilbert, Sheryl Suzanne Crow, William D. Bottrell
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 9

  • Steve K from New YorkWow, is that THE David Baerwald in the comments calling her “poor Sheryl, pure as the driven snow”? That’s a new low.
  • David F Baerwald from NyPoor Sheryl, pure as the driven snow.
  • Mary O. from Omaha, NeI never thought Sheryl Crow had much vocal talent, and this song proves it. Or is she supposed to sound this bad? For those of you who grew up in the 70's, you might remember "Chuck E's in Love" by Rickie Lee Jones. LLV reminds me of Rickie singing about Chuck E.
    Hideous.

  • Jack from Mesa, AzUsing the title of something else, everyone knows which work came first so it actually hurts Sheryl Crow in that regard. I always kind of thought less of this song because I thought she stole the title but apparently it wasn't like that. Good, thought-provoking song whatever the case...
  • Marlene from Montreal, QcI agree, you can't blame her for these men taking their lives. They may have said it was, but it sounds like they were probably depressed for years and musicians/artists are volatile types. No one makes someone else take their own life. Poor Sheryl though, she seems to attract suicidal men!
  • Kate from Minneapolis, MnExcuse me Elson but no person can 'make' another person take their own life. Suicide is caused by untreated mental illness, not a bad breakup. We've all had bad breakups, but you never end a relationship with the notion that your ex will choose to kill themselves. Sheryl has to live with some amount of guilt, however misplaced it may be, because two people close to her completed suicides. She shouldn't need to apologize to you or anyone else for her success or her choice to end a relationship, and I'm sure Lance will be just fine.
  • Christian from Las Vegas, NvIts funny that her biggest success' was after leaving Tuesday Night Music Club not only as a singer/songrwiter but a producer (not many musicians can stake that claim) yet a single that didn't even break her is still supposed to kick up doubt? Pointing fingers for suicide is awfully ironice to say the least. Quit your yapping. Sheryl Crow's talent is unmatched and the TNMC has nothing to do with it.
  • Mike from Sydney, AustraliaJust to clarify, Kevin Gilbert died of his own hand, but it was not intentional. He died of autoerotic asphyxiation, just like Michael Hutchence from INXS.
  • Elson from Los Angeles, CaJohn O'Brien wasn't the only Crow associate who took his life as a result of her success. Singer/songwriter/musician Kevin Gilbert, who was an actual member of the Tuesday Night Music Club, co-wrote and played on other songs on the album with Crow and was even romantically linked with her for a time, took his own life in 1996.

    I fear for Lance Armstrong now...
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