She almost didn't end up making the session. MoZella was extremely emotional that day. Stephan later recalled: "Within 5 or 10 minutes of meeting each other, things became highly charged. MoZella, then a jobbing songwriter, was scheduled to attend a getting-to-know-you session with Stephan Moccio and Sacha Skarbek, who had gathered around a white piano in a school, trying to come up with a song for Beyoncé.īut her personal life was in turmoil, she had just called off her engagement, breaking up with someone she felt had treated her poorly, and as soon as the song's title had been agreed upon, all of the hurt came pouring out. While the song has long since become overshadowed by its video, Wrecking Ball, as a composition, remains a potent summary of the devastated mindset of the person who wrote it. You know - that particular part of my life has now left town." But, and I suppose what I was doing, I was paying tribute to this night with him and also seeing him as being the circus of my life. Some clown was running around brandishing a knife, which was something quite frightening but he liked it - I mean, it excited him. He'd seen a clown with a knife, which I didn't see at all. "After the show, we were driving back to New York City and all he could remember, all he could talk about was this clown. You've got clowns and tigers and everything. We went to see one of those huge things that they do in America where they have three rings going on at the same time. In a 1998 BBC interview, Eric explained: "The last night I spent with Conor, we went to the circus. Tears in Heaven - recorded for MTV Unplugged and then released as a single - addresses the relationship between father and son, and the hope that they will meet again someday, while Circus is a rueful look back on the last night Eric and Conor spent together. The songs Eric Clapton wrote in 1991 had one purpose, to help him express the anguish of losing his four-year-old son Conor, who had died in a tragic accident in New York. It's such a good memory, that's why it’s ended up on there." He then played it to his dad, who insisted he play it at the service, which was only attended by five people - just the closest family members - and was approached afterwards by his grandfather: "My grandfather just turned to me, he was like, 'you have to put that out, that has to go on the record'. It was written from my mum's point of view it was choosing loads of specific things and then just finishing it as a song." Speaking to former Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, he described the songwriting process as very straightforward: "She was one of the nicest women you'd ever meet and she was my mum's mum. Ed later explained that he wanted to write a song from her perspective, a song which would not only encapsulate how his mother would be feeling, but also reveal a lot about his own feelings for both women. That record made me feel like I could have something.Ed Sheeran wrote Supermarket Flowers for his mum, because her mother - his grandmother - was ill in hospital while he was recording the album that would become Divide. “That was the first music as a child that struck with me, because it made me forget we live where we live.
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“I don’t know what’s in that record, but there’s something in it that just cracked open everything in me,” Blige says. She recalls falling in love with music after hearing “Everybody Loves The Sunshine” by Roy Ayers. The film begins by exploring Blige’s upbringing in Yonkers, New York. The documentary, directed by Vanessa Roth, looks back on one of Blige’s most famous albums, 1994’s My Life, which remains not only one of her most personal and raw album to date-touching on her experiences in an abusive relationship, struggles with addiction, and more-but also effectively changed the course of hip-hop and soul music. Blige has more than earned the title the “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul.” But My Life, a new documentary arriving on Amazon Prime tomorrow, shows that the superstar’s journey to the top hasn’t been without its struggles. With 13 albums, nine Grammy awards, and millions of records sold, Mary J.