The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
AHMET ERTEGUNWhenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.
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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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At a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it’d kill me.
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I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn’t have the other $20,000.
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