Thinking about his age. I am 74, at least for the next 8 hours. My birthday 3-17, so it puts my age more into perspective now. The age when we really start to think about the time we have left. Was such a beautiful song and I think years ago I had put it on to a mix tape, don't have that tape anymore. Sad
@@ChadeoYT He really was. He was a child prodigy and enrolled in the Cleveland Institute of Music at 3 yo. He was classically trained on the piano, learned to play the violin as well at a young age. He had a guitar teacher he fired when he was around 12 (I think it was that age anyway), got a Beatles songbook, and learned all their cords in the next 4 months. He was in bands in high school from age 14, and wrote a lot of the music for the 4 Raspberries albums that they did in the space of a 2-3 years. Then, wrote all the music for his own solo work. I think he was just 21-22 when he started writing the Raspberries songs, and maybe 25 when he wrote this song. He said he had no furniture in his living room apartment outside of a piano during this period. It's interesting that he was much more into a rock style with the Raspberries, and then turned more power ballad-ey when going solo. The Raspberries first big hit was arguably the first US power pop song! He wrote very short verses and very long choruses on that and a couple others because he figured that's what people like about pop and rock songs. I'm a big fan - can you tell? :D Loved your reaction, too. :)
So sad to hear about Eric Carmen's recent passing! He was a great singer, songwriter, guitarist & keyboardist. He was originally with the group "The Raspberries" & they had a few hits with "Go All The Way" "Let's Pretend", "I Wanna Be With You", "Tonight" & "Overnight Sensation. Eric then went solo & had numerous hit songs in the 70's-80's such as "All By Myself", "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again", "She Did It", "That's Rock & Roll", "Hungry Eyes", "Make Me Lose Control", "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips" etc.
The portion of this song that Eric used from one of Rachmaninov's concertos was in the public domain in the US. It wasn't outside of the country at the time. He wasn't aware of that. He didn't plagiarize, or steal it as some say; rather, he reworked it for the verses. The chorus, interlude, and intro, lyrics, and so on were all his. It was a different concerto by Rachmaninov that he used in a similar fashion for Never Gonna Fall In Love Again. It was all very amicably settled by Rachmaninov's estate. Oh, before I forget, Eric didn't care for his singing voice. He didn't hate it nor disguise it like John Lennon, but still. If only they knew how much many people loved their voices. I've hard that Cher, and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan don't like their singing voices either.
