Entries by Norman Warwick

MUDDY ROAD AHEAD

Unlike most other pop singers, Page blended country music styles into many of her songs. As a result of this crossover appeal, many of Page’s singles appeared on the Billboard Country Chart. In the 1970s, she shifted her style more toward country music and began having even more success on the country charts, ending up as one of the few vocalists to have charted in five separate decades.

STEELY DAN: WHAT´S IN A NAME?

“Song For My Father” influenced many in popular music over the years, including the opening horn riff for Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing” and Earth Wind & Fire’s opening bass notes for the song “Clover.”  

DONNY OSMOND; a change of perception

everybody is interested in my song that was itself inspired by one that Justin Bieber wrote. When I saw the video for his song “Lonely,” I thought, Boy, if anyone can relate to that story, it’s me, because I’ve been through the same thing. So I wrote “Life After Loneliness,” because in it, I talk about the fact that he’s a star, and that light that he has will never dim because he’s the real deal. He’s made the leap that I’ve been able to – to get away from the teenybopper thing and have people recognize me as a writer and a musician. He’s made some odd decisions in his life, but he’s found love and some normalcy to his life. So, that song, “Lonely,” inspired “Life After Loneliness” on my album.