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Overview
A discussion about the 80's music scene would be incomplete without mentioning Richard Marx. His debut album went triple platinum, and his follow up album went quadruple platinum. While he was enjoying historic solo success, he was busy writing hit songs for who's who stars like Luther Vandross, Natalie Cole and Kenny Rogers. This is a career filled with one amazing story after another.
Richard Marx is one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters in the history of popular music. His self-titled 1987 album went triple platinum and made him the first male solo artist (and second solo artist overall after Whitney Houston) to have four singles from their debut crack the top three on the Billboard Hot 100. His follow-up, 1989’s Repeat Offender, was an even bigger smash, going quadruple platinum and landing two singles at number one. He has written fourteen number one songs in total, shared a Song of the Year Grammy with Luther Vandross, and collaborated with a variety of artists including NSYNC, Josh Groban, Natalie Cole, and Keith Urban. Lately, he’s also become a Twitter celebrity thanks to his outspokenness on social issues and his ability to out-troll his trolls.
In Stories to Tell, Marx uses this same engaging, straight-talking style to look back on his life and career. He writes of how Kenny Rogers changed a single line of a song he’d written for him then asked for a 50% cut—which inspired Marx to write one of his biggest hits. He tells the uncanny story of how he wound up curled up on the couch of Olivia Newton-John, his childhood crush, watching Xanadu. He shares the tribulations of working with the all-female hair metal band Vixen and appearing in their video. Yet amid these entertaining celebrity encounters, Marx offers a more sobering assessment of the music business as he’s experienced it over four decades—the challenges of navigating greedy executives and grueling tour schedules, and the rewards of connecting with thousands of fans at sold-out shows that make all the drama worthwhile. He also provides an illuminating look at his songwriting process and talks honestly about how his personal life has inspired his work, including finding love with wife Daisy Fuentes and the mystery illness that recently struck him—and that doctors haven’t been able to solve.
Stories to Tell is a remarkably candid, wildly entertaining memoir about the art and business of music.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781797129747 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Audio |
Publication date: | 07/06/2021 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.60(d) |
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Table of Contents
Prologue October 2019 1
1 Where Do I Begin? 1 5
2 "I Wanna Be Free" 19
3 "The One You Need" 25
4 "You Are" 29
5 "Crazy" 35
6 "Guilty" (Barbra, Part I) 43
7 "She's a Beauty" 49
8 "White Heat" 55
9 "Should've Known Better" 59
10 "Manhunt" 71
11 "Somebody Loves You" 73
12 "If I Turn You Away" 79
13 "Endless Summer Nights" 87
14 "Don't Mean Nothing" 93
15 "Hold On to the Nights" 103
16 Riding the Speedwagon 107
17 "Edge of a Broken Heart" 111
18 "Burning of the Heart" (The Richard Marx Amendment) 121
19 "Right Here Waiting" (Barbra, Part II) 125
20 "Angelia" 131
21 The Elvis Incident 137
22 "You're the Voice" 141
23 The Tale of Taipei 145
24 It's a Boy, It's a Boy, It's a Boy 159
25 "Keep Coming Back" 165
26 "Hazard" 173
27 "Suddenly" 179
28 Elton and the Disappearing Tooth 183
29 "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" 187
30 "The Way She Loves Me" 191
31 Oprah, O. J., and Me 197
32 "Through My Veins" 201
33 "The One That Got Away" 209
34 "If You Ever Leave Me" (Barbra, Part III) 225
35 "This I Promise You" 231
36 "To Where You Are" (The Mistake That Went to Number 1) 237
37 "Dance with My Father" 243
38 The Perfect Man's Imperfection 251
39 "Gone Country" 257
40 "Better Life" 265
41 A Successful Marriage 277
42 "Eyes on Me" 281
43 "Always" 289
44 "Limitless" 293
Epilogue November 2020 299
Acknowledgments 309