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Songwriter Diane Warren s First Album Shows Talent Gets Better Over Time
After more nine number one songs and 32 top 10 hits, the Hall of Fame songwriter is branching out on her own. By Sasha Frere-Jones Bill Edwards
There’s a sign in Diane Warren’s studio that usually reads “finish my song bitch.” It’s a black felt square with white plastic letters, the kind that movie theaters once used to post showtimes. The letters today, though, have been rearranged to read “fish by song witch.”
Cher
Love and Understanding - Cher, Warren, Diane
Save Up All Your Tears - Cher, Child, Desmond
The Shoop Shoop Song (It s in His Kiss) - Cher, Clark, Rudy
After All (Love Theme From Chances Are) - Cher, Pitchford, Dean
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher, Warren, Diane
Just Like Jesse James - Cher, Child, Desmond
Heart of Stone - Cher, Hill, Andy
I Found Someone - Cher, Bolton, Michael
We All Sleep Alone - Cher, BonJovi, Jon
Bang Bang - Cher, Bono, Sonny
Take Me Home - Cher, Aller, Michele
Dark Lady - Cher, Durrill, John
Half-Breed - Cher, Copps, Al
But she remembered being impressed when she heard Steven Tyler’s performance before its appearance in the 1998 blockbuster movie
Armageddon. The chart-topping track was also nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar and a Worst Original Song Golden Raspberry, although it lost in both contests.
In a new interview with
Rolling Stone, Warren recalled how she started with a title, as she often does. “I was shown the end of the movie,” she said. “So I went back and wrote the song … and never in a million years thought Aerosmith would do it. I kind of thought a female vocalist would end up doing it, but it’s so much more powerful with Steven Tyler – him being that vulnerable in the song really worked.”
Cher Says 2 Fans Helped Her Escape Man Who Threatened To Kill Her
The fans, who became friends, saw something was wrong, Cher told The Guardian about the decades-old incident.
Cher recounted a terrifying story about a man who threatened to kill her back in the 1980s and how two fans came to her rescue.
The “If I Could Turn Back Time” singer spoke with The Guardian for an interview published Monday, during which she commented that she doesn’t “like going out now because everybody’s got a camera and it’s not safe.”
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Cher, seen here at a Los Angeles movie premiere in April 2017, elaborated in an interview with The Guardian why she prefers to stay out of the public eye these days.