I loved Otis Redding and I tried to write a song for Otis Redding and that is how “First Cut Is the Deepest” came about. As well as listening to musicals I was also going down to clubs and listening to the latest R&B records coming over from across the Atlantic. What I wanted to do there was… I loved R&B. That was one which, again, it was partly telling the story of a breakup between me and one of my first loves, really, and that was a very strong sentiment. I fell in love with the melody and the words, and people think it’s mineĬan you share with us the story behind “First Cut Is The Deepest”? It was quite a traditional song sung in the church, and I just did my own arrangement. I picked it up from the hymnbook one time when I was searching for ideas. “Morning Has Broken” was originally a hymn, but you really made it your own. Watching kids walk out the door is not an easy thing. It’s a mother’s song too, I would think, it’s very appropriate for a mother, also.
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series Skins, and of course it’s meaningful to so many on a personal level. That song still continues to pop up in so many movies and television shows. I wanted to sound like me, like my demos and the original ideas in my head, and that’s how I began to develop my sound, which was mainly acoustic and very, very personal. I continued on my quest searching spiritually for my home, you may say, and while that was happening, I began writing again and this time I was determined not to let the business, and the sounds that were prevalent at the time, affect me. I had one very important book, it’s a Buddhist book called The Secret Path, and that opened me up to the great questions about existence and that’s where my wisdom, probably, where my thoughts began to take shape and my questions became defined. So I had to quickly read up on as many spiritual books as I could. At that point, I thought I was dying, and I thought the doctors were not telling me. I was about 19 at the time, I had my first hit record at age 18 and by 19 I’d had it. My spiritual quest began at that time in earnest. That was really life-changing for me, having gone through that incredible adoration and being in the spotlight, and then suddenly I was thrust into a hospital bed and isolated, alone, and I had a lot of thinking to do. After my first little zoom into the heavens as a pop star, I came crashing back down to earth very soon with a disease called tuberculosis. Well, that really is connected to what happened next. What precipitated the segue to your second musical act? And, of course, I was also listening to my sister’s record collection, which included Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Bach, so I had a pretty classical musical background and upbringing.
I already had a Greek cultural upbringing from my father’s side so there was all that going on, too. West Side Story was absolutely it for me, and if you listen to my early songs, you’ll hear that kind of jagged staccato. I have this ability to write about things which I imagine. There are certainly songs I’ve written that I never fully understood myself how I got there. And so my first inspiration really came from musicals, and if you look at my early career, my first songs were kind of jerky, cameo life experiences I would just imagine and then write a song about. But the storytelling, and the great composers like Gershwin and Bernstein. It means you’re surrounded by incredible music but not necessarily pop music. So if you’ve got someone living on Broadway, you know what that means. I was brought up in London in the middle of the West End, which is very comparable to Broadway. I was a pop star, but that wasn’t my first intention. There was another era where I was trying to enter into songwriting and making hit records. I think we should mention that there was a previous career before the “Moon Shadow,” “Wild World,” “Father and Son” era. When I think about how young you were when you wrote some of your biggest songs, you seem to have possessed a wisdom beyond your years. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).2019 SHOF Inductee Jack Tempchin Tells the Tale Behind 'Peaceful Easy Feeling'
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