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"Because the Night" is a rock song from 1977 written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith [2] which appears on the 1978 Patti Smith Group album Easter. On March 2, 1978, the song was released as a single, and was commercially successful, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart [ 3 ] and No. 5 in the United Kingdom , which helped propel ...
In March 1975, Smith's group, the Patti Smith Group, began a two-month weekend set of shows at CBGB in New York City with the band Television. The Patti Smith Group was spotted by Clive Davis, who signed them to Arista Records. Later that year, the Patti Smith Group recorded their debut album, Horses, produced by John Cale amid some tension. [18]
Produced by Jimmy Iovine, the album is regarded as the group's commercial breakthrough, owing to the success of the rock single "Because the Night" (co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Smith), which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 [1] and number five on the UK Singles Chart.
Pages in category "Songs written by Patti Smith" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. ... Because the Night; C. Career of Evil (song) D.
MTV Unplugged is a 1993 live album and video by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs, recorded for the MTV Unplugged series. The album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and spawned the hit single "Because the Night", a cover of the song written by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen.
This article is a discography of Patti Smith, an American rock singer-songwriter. Since 1974 she has released eleven studio albums , three live albums , two EPs , nineteen singles , three compilation albums , and one box set on Arista Records and Columbia Records .
The first single of the album was "Frederick", a love song for frontwoman Patti Smith's fiancé Fred "Sonic" Smith with a melody and structure bearing a resemblance to "Because the Night", the group's biggest hit. [2] [3] Smith began writing the lyrics of second single "Dancing Barefoot" in late 1978 and recorded it in 1979. [4]
It included the single "Because the Night", a song that was co-written by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen and had been a hit for Smith in 1978. [3] In 1986, Keel won the Best Band of the Year award in the second annual Metal Edge magazine reader's poll, beating such noted bands as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.