Number One single, "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," was promptly covered by Al Green. Elton John has called them "a huge influence on me as a songwriter" Bono has said their catalog makes him "ill with envy." The Bee Gees' earliest hits ("New York Mining Disaster 1941," "To Love Somebody") were melancholy psychedelia, and their first U.S. But that multiplatinum triumph was just the tip of the iceberg: Australian brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb were massively successful songwriters for decades. "And so I started writing these story songs."Īmerica first discovered the Bee Gees with the 1977 disco soundtrack Saturday Night Fever. One of Nashville's most overtly political songwriters, he was a liberal who recorded "Watergate Blues" and turned a drink in a bar after the 1972 Democratic convention into a Number One country hit called "Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine." "I couldn't write the 'Darling, you left alone and blue' or 'I'm drunk in this bar and crying' - I just didn't get it," he once said.
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Riley in 1968, it freed Hall to record his own work, which included songs about burying a man who owed him 40 dollars, mourning the death of the local hero who taught him how to drink and play guitar, and "Trip to Hyden," a journalistic tale of a drive to the scene of a mining disaster that was part Woody Guthrie, part Studs Turkel. A Number One pop and country hit for Jeannie C. Taylor uses so much ice when her husband's out of town. His best work was charged with literary irony but unfolded with the ease of spoken language, as when the mini-skirted heroine of "Harper Valley P.T.A." struts into the local junior high and exposes small-town hypocrisy by asking why Mrs. Never lose sight of humility, no matter your success.Hall was an English major who said he learned to write songs by osmosis, soaking up everything from Dickens to Hemingway. His #bigomaha lecture on Notorious B.I.G.’s 10 Crack Commandments is the best presentation I’ve seen in a long time. “Distribute the risk to get rational thought around the decisions that you make.” And not just money, it could be a product or service. If you ain’t got the clientele, say hell no.“When you refuse to be labeled, suddenly you play by your own rules not theirs,” he said. “They’re going to organize you like soup cans on a shelf,” Eckō said.
Cozying up with politics implies ulterior motives and could affect your course of transaction. Let your partners and employees do their jobs, get out of their way. “We have to act rational.” Nepotism should not be tolerated in the workplace.
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