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They’ve got the beat (CBR12BINGO: Music)

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook

July 6, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I think my favorite random fact about music as an industry is that “I Write the Songs,” Barry Manilow’s signature song, was written by someone else. (Well, that and the fact that Christine McVie told her ex-husband that “You Make Lovin Fun – a song where the next line after the titular one is “and I don’t have to tell you that you’re the only one” was about their dog instead of her new boyfriend on a song he had to play on because he […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, John Seabrook

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:74 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, John Seabrook ·
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