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The album Talking Back To The Night by Steve Winwood enters the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No28.
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Steve Winwood : Talking Back To The Night was really an anti-drug album, the whole thing, but not in a very obvious way. The title track started with a poem Will Jennings wrote on the subject, and it spread from there.
Valerie, for instance, isn't a song remembering this girl I was madly in love with. It's not that at all. It's a plea to a certain girl singer - someone I don't know personally but who Will Jennings had drawn my attention to - not to destroy herself with drugs. The narrator in the song is saying, 'I'm back, and I'm the same person I used to be - so why isn't she?'
I believe there was a production failing on the record; it was under-produced. But I was lucky enough to go back and remix certain of those tracks with Tom Lord Alge for Chronicles. We put certain tweaks of production on 'Valerie' so it'd sound better on the radio.
(Source : Musician – November 1988)
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Valerie, for instance, isn't a song remembering this girl I was madly in love with. It's not that at all. It's a plea to a certain girl singer - someone I don't know personally but who Will Jennings had drawn my attention to - not to destroy herself with drugs. The narrator in the song is saying, 'I'm back, and I'm the same person I used to be - so why isn't she?'
I believe there was a production failing on the record; it was under-produced. But I was lucky enough to go back and remix certain of those tracks with Tom Lord Alge for Chronicles. We put certain tweaks of production on 'Valerie' so it'd sound better on the radio.
(Source : Musician – November 1988)