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© 1981 Island Records

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According to co-producer Phil Chapman, the recording sessions for the album took place in a studio whose air conditioning/heating vents were directly above the mixing console. Air from the vents blew directly into the faces of the control room personnel, so they often wore sunglasses to protect their eyes. Hart, working on a new...

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Like most other Wham! songs from this period, it was written by George Michael. He discussed in the fall 1985 issue of ASCAP in Action: “It’s the only song I’ve written that successfully came from a backing track first. I wrote the Linn drum pattern and found a synthesizer program I liked and wrote the backing track in one...

“I love this, I make all these little mix tapes together, I put all my favorite songs together…”...

“An einem freien Tag zwischen zwei Konzerten in Österreich gedreht.” (“Filmed on a day off between two concerts in Austria.”)

© 1985 Virgin Records Ltd.

The “Knight Rider Theme” was composed by Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson.[5] The series DVD bonus material contains an interview about this lead music, where Glen A. Larson says he remembers a theme out of a classical piece (“Marche Et Cortège De Bacchus” Act III – No. 14 from Sylvia written by French composer Léo...

© 1988 Parlophone Music Sweden

© 1987 Dinosaur Jr. Inc.

The song originated in 1979 from South African musician, singer-songwriter, and producer Trevor Rabin; while going to the toilet, he wrote “the whole thing, from beginning to end”.[7][8] Rabin then put down his ideas onto tape using his home equipment …...

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Jake E. Lee killing it on guitar....

In an interview with Songfacts, [co-songwriter] Will Jennings said: “Valerie is a real person, whose identity I will not reveal. She was almost at the top of the world in her profession and let it slip away from her. She was a dear friend and this was my tribute to her.”[1] It has been alleged, however, that he was thinking...

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The synth line was written circa 1981 by Eddie Van Halen, but it was rejected by the other members of the band. In 1983, producer Ted Templeman asked Roth to listen to the unused song idea. Riding around in the back of his 1951 Mercury, with band roadie Larry Hostler driving, Roth listened repeatedly to the tune. To come up with...

“Africa” is a 1982 soft rock song by the American band Toto which has been widely parodied and covered online as an iconic track from the time period. Additionally, the song has been referenced numerous times on South Park as a nostalgic favorite of the Member Berries characters....

The core riff of “Dirty Mind” was originally a jam devised by keyboardist Doctor Fink for Prince’s band.[8] He and Prince recorded it in one evening and Prince finished it the next morning.[8] The song is set to a metronomic disco beat, likened by Walters to the motorik beat of Krautrock.[10] The song melds Minneapolis...

“Mad World” was originally written on acoustic guitar when Orzabal was 19 after being inspired to write a new wave song in the vein of Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film”. After a few false starts with Orzabal on vocals, he suggested Smith sing it and “suddenly it sounded fabulous”.[7]...

Jeff Mills (born June 18, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan), also known as “the Wizard”, is an American DJ, record producer, and composer.[1][2] In the late 1980s Mills founded the techno collective Underground Resistance with fellow Detroit techno producers ‘Mad’ Mike Banks and Robert Hood but left the group to pursue a...

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