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"I.O.U." is a song by British musical group Freeez, released in 1983. The song was written and produced by Arthur Baker and remixed by Jellybean Benitez and Arthur Baker.The song was an international hit, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart, making the top ten in many European charts and topping the US Billboard Dance/Disco chart.
Freeez's last and biggest hit (a top 5 hit in many countries worldwide) was the song "IOU", which was written and produced by Arthur Baker with lyric contributions and lead vocals by Rocca and remixed by Jellybean Benitez and Baker. [2] The song was also used for the 1980s breakdancing film Beat Street.
Moby, in a July 15, 2021, appearance on Rick Rubin's podcast "Broken Record said AEIOU Sometimes Y is "the strangest record in the world pop music history . . . the lyrics are phenomenal, like a graduate dissertation on semiotics with a story about picking up a girl in café." [6]
Don McLean shares how he came to write 'American Pie,' from delivering papers with the news of Buddy Holly's death to meeting the Everly Brothers.
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"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released in 1971 on the album of the same name , the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 starting January 15 [ 2 ] after just eight weeks on the US Billboard charts (where it entered at number 69). [ 3 ]
The titular Southern Freeez is attested to derive from a dance move, "The Freeze," used by clubbers in the "Royalty" club, Southgate in the early 1980s. A then-popular song, "The Groove" by Rodney Franklin , has moments where the band drops out for a bar , and a style of freezing movement at these points took hold.
Songwriter Don McLean says he rejects comparisons of today’s political climate to the 1960s, saying in the past, despite the division, “you knew where people stood.” “There was a ...