Life After Pop Songwriting
I remember asking my friend, hit songwriter Jon (“Crazy For You,” “Boogie Wonderland”) Lind – he took that pic of me during one of our writes – if he missed writing pop songs. He had recently had his fill of sessions and joined the other side – A&R at Hollywood Records. This was about twenty years ago.
He didn’t even flinch. He said, quite definitively, not at all. He doesn’t miss it. If he never writes another it would be too soon.
I thoughts about that for years.
At the time I was still in the room and couldn’t imagine that one day I wouldn’t seek to be there any more. For the longest time…
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