Gordon Sumner a grandi à Tyneside, enseigné dans une école primaire et fréquenté les clubs jazz de Newcastle avant que sa basse et sa voix lui ouvrent la porte. Avec The Police il a écrit des singles reggae-rock nerveux; seul il a construit une deuxième
En 2015, Mike Posner sort I Took A Pill In Ibiza en morceau acoustique ; le remix de Seeb en fait ensuite un hit tropical house mondial.
Who Knew is the second single from P!nk’s 2006 album I’m Not Dead: written with Max Martin and Dr. Luke at Conway in Hollywood, released 8 May 2006 on LaFace, and later a US Hot 100 Top 10 after LaFace promoted it again in 2007.
On 1 December 1997, Chrysalis released Angels, the fourth single from Robbie Williams's debut solo album Life thru a Lens, written with Guy Chambers.
In 1981 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, Rod Stewart cut Young Turks with Jim Cregan for the album Tonight I'm Yours, built on synths and a drum machine.
On 27 August 1996 Sheryl Crow issued If It Makes You Happy as the lead single from her self-titled second album: co-written with Jeff Trott, produced by Crow, cut between Kingsway in New Orleans and Sunset Sound Factory in Los Angeles, and a Billboard Hot
From the 1989 debut Southside, Tim Palmer produced Johnny McElhone and Sharleen Spiteri's blues-leaning Mercury single that peaked at UK No. 44.
Sous lumière d’église et projecteurs, Riffs and Beats retrouve Whitney Houston devant un micro calme.
James Warren's 1980 Rialto single, shaped by David Lord, reached UK No. 5 and topped charts in France and Spain.
On Dawn FM in January 2022, Less Than Zero pairs Abel Tesfaye with Max Martin and Oscar Holter for a clear synth-pop track that later went to French radio as a single.
