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"Make Me Lose Control" is a song written and performed by singer-songwriter Eric Carmen and co-written with Dean Pitchford. It is one of two major hits written by the duo, the other being the 1984 song "Almost Paradise" by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson. "Make Me Lose Control" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988.
"All by Myself" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen, released by Arista in December 1975 as the first single from Carmen's debut album, Eric Carmen (1975). The verse is based on the second movement ( Adagio sostenuto ) of Sergei Rachmaninoff 's 1900–1901 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor , Opus 18.
The song, Carmen's second Top 40 song of the 1980s, was his biggest hit since "All by Myself". A few months after the success of "Hungry Eyes", Carmen released the Ienner-produced "Make Me Lose Control", which also reached the Top 10 in the US.
Eric Carmen, who became an icon of early ’70s power pop as the frontman of the Raspberries before achieving solo success with hits like “All By Myself” and “Hungry Eyes,” has died at age 74.
All by Myself; Almost Paradise (song) B. Boats Against the Current (song) C. Change of Heart (Eric Carmen song) Cruisin' Music; D. ... Make Me Lose Control (song)
To many, Carmen was best known for writing the 1975 power ballad “All By Myself”. It was covered by Celine Dion in 1996, and again in 2001 by Jamie O’Neal for the film Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Eric Carmen is the debut album by American rock musician and singer-songwriter Eric Carmen.It is also his first of two self-titled albums, the other released in 1984. It peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard album chart upon its release in 1975, the highest position of his career, and generated the No. 2 pop single "All by Myself" in the same year.
Boats Against the Current is a 1977 album by Eric Carmen.The title is taken from a line in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” [1] It was Carmen's second solo LP, after the Raspberries disbanded.