Many years ago I recorded a track which was being sung by a girl session singer. She was very good and had done sessions for lots of big names. The song was about a relationship break-up.

She sang beautifully, but I felt the song was lacking the emotion it needed, so I asked her if she could immerse herself in the lyrics and imagine she was the one who'd written the song.

She asked if we would turn out the lights in the studio, so she could see us in the control room, but we couldn't see her and then she sang it again. As soon as she started it sent shivers down my back and when we brought the lights up again the tears were streaming down her face. Only then did she say that her boyfriend had walked out the week before after five years together.

Now, some thirty years on, it's still the best thing I ever recorded. Sometimes it just works like that.

ROG.



Last edited by ROG; 05/19/13 03:37 PM.
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