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"Because the Night" is a rock song from 1977 written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith [2] which appears on the 1978 Patti Smith Group album Easter. On March 2, 1978, the song was released as a single, and was commercially successful, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart [ 3 ] and No. 5 in the United Kingdom , which helped propel ...
Produced by Jimmy Iovine, the album is regarded as the group's commercial breakthrough, owing to the success of the rock single "Because the Night" (co-written by Bruce Springsteen and Smith), which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 [1] and number five on the UK Singles Chart. [2]
In 1978, her most widely known song, "Because the Night", co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart [1] and number five on the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. [2]
It included the single "Because the Night", a song that was co-written by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen and had been a hit for Smith in 1978. [3] In 1986, Keel won the Best Band of the Year award in the second annual Metal Edge magazine reader's poll, beating such noted bands as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.
"Pretty real. As real as it gets, to be honest," she replies. "I just write from my own experience and they're very real. They're all the things that I've been through, all situations I've had ...
Because, you come to me, with naught save love, and hold my hand and lift mine eyes above, a wider world of hope and joy I see, because you come to me! Because you speak to me in accent sweet, I find the roses waking 'round my feet, and I am led through tears and joy to thee, because you speak to me! Because God made thee mine, I'll cherish thee!
In Rolling Stone, Anthony DeCurtis said that Natalie Merchant's lyrics reflect a "struggle between fervent hope and a kind of wide-eyed despair" and give Our Time in Eden "a provocative, unnerving power", and "the sonic allure of the Maniacs' music and Merchant's voice is a seduction into songs that are charged, complex and troubling."
He had found Yoko, his Mount Olympus of love, he paused the Beatles, entered primal scream therapy, and essentially self-produced these sparse rhythm-section sessions because producer Phil Spector ...