Fact #20380

Gerry Goffin (songwriter) : I wrote for an urban audience because I grew up in New York, and it would have been phony for me to pretend otherwise. Up On The Roof was a bigger hit in New York than anyplace else, because they have rows and rows of tall buildings, and people used to go up on the roof to get away from it all or to make out. That would appeal to an urban kid. I'm sure it sold just as much to white kids as black kids.
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