Posts by Melissa Locker
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Q&’80s: John Oates on the Legacy of Hall & Oates’s ‘She’s Gone’
When asked to weigh in on what is their biggest hit, Oates tackled the problem philosophically: “You have to define what ‘biggest’ means — if you’re talking about the most for sales, if you’re talking about highest chart position, if you’re talking about a song that has endured the test of time.”
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Q&’80s: Toto’s Dave Paich on Writing and Recording ‘Africa’
“Normally, things that are kind of deep and musical and kind of off the beaten path don’t make for hit records.”
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Q&80s: Rick Springfield on Writing and Living With ‘Jessie’s Girl’
“It was just sexual angst, really,” says the singer.
