Bruno Mars – Just the Way You Are
The piano enters clean, then Bruno Mars sings the love song straight, with no long intro. Just the Way You Are, released on 20 July 2010 as the lead single from Doo-Wops & Hooligans, does not tease. It states the.
Lionel Richie – Hello
On 13 February 1984 Motown released Hello, the third single from Lionel Richie's second solo album, Can't Slow Down. Richie wrote it and produced it with James Anthony Carmichael.
Sade – Feel No Pain
On 16 November 1992 Epic released Feel No Pain, the second single from Love Deluxe, a funk shuffle about a family that cannot get work.
Sade – By Your Side
By Your Side reached US radio on 3 October 2000, the first Sade single in eight years, before Lovers Rock arrived in Britain.
Sade – The Sweetest Taboo
The Sweetest Taboo, lead single from Promise, was cut at the Power Plant in 1985 from a drum-machine idea that the band then played live, glasses and all.
Sade – Never as Good as the First Time
Released on 5 March 1986 as the third single from Promise, Never as Good as the First Time added a vocal intro the album did not have.
Sade – Nothing Can Come Between Us
Released on 15 August 1988, Nothing Can Come Between Us reached number 3 on Billboard's R&B chart and number 92 in Britain.
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
In the summer of 1972 Stevie Wonder was at Electric Lady Studios in New York, making the album that became Talking Book, with Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil running the gear around him. Wonder was playing almost everything himself by then. He still wanted a
Bruno Mars – Showbiz muscle under silk
Peter Gene Hernandez left Honolulu stages for Los Angeles writing rooms, then built a solo career on Motown study and tightly rehearsed shows.
Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely
Isn't She Lovely opens the third side of Songs in the Key of Life, the double album Tamla released on 28 September 1976. Wonder wrote it for his daughter Aisha Morris, born in February 1975 to him and Yolanda Simmons. The track does not start