Aerosmith Biggest Hit To Date

Most Aerosmith fans I know will loath at the fact that their biggest hit 'I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing' was written by Diane Warren - a songwriter who has written predominantly ballads for artists mainly in the pop/soul & country arena. But I have another perspective on the matter.

If you are judging the song from a 'band' standpoint, then you probably will never fully appreciate the song. Fans of rock know the exciting music they are known for, and some would rather push the song to one side - for every reason pertaining to ..."it's just not Aerosmith."

But when you listen to it form a songwriter's point of you, you know that it's quite simply a great love song which the band have performed brilliantly.

Here's the video to a song that won a Grammy Award, went to number one in the USA and stayed in the top 5 of the singles chart all over Europe for weeks on end.

Calvin

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Local Man Wins Songwriting Awards With Insightful Lyrics

If you started to play an instrument or write songs from as a child - and LEFT all those skills behind as soon as you entered adulthood, do you think it is likely that you would then pick up where you left off 15 years later?

Well, for Scott Pearce - not only is this true, but he has also come back in style.

Here is an article of a man who just recently gained second place in a songwriting contest by the Austin Songwriters Group....and relaxingly says, "I'm more comfortable in my own skin now than I was 15 years ago."

On a sea of crystal glass
streets of solid gold
walls of every precious stone
No pain

That's the vision of Winterville songwriter Scott Pearce in "No Tears," the song that brought him his second consecutive grand prize in a contest sponsored last month by the Austin Songwriters Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and developing aspiring songwriters.

Click here to finish reading the article.

Source http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/
stories/2006/07/21/songwriter.html / T. Scott Batchelor
/ www.reflector.com]

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