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Nick Lowe

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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How to Write Songs That Stay Powerful

When writing in the early 70s and you were with Brinsley Schwartz, you wrote a lot of the songs that became your hits later on. Was writing the same back then for you? It was... When I hear that the early songs I wrote, I can really hear a kid, you know, starting to feel his way. We figured out that in order to have any staying power, we had to learn how to write songs.

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