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"Love Song" is a song written and recorded by Canadian band Sky for their 1999 album Piece of Paradise. It was Sky's most successful single, climbing to number one on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart. It also peaked at number 38 on the US Billboard Mainstream Top 40, becoming the band's only single to appear on any Billboard chart.
From Beyoncé and Taylor Swift to Adele and classics like Etta James and Otis Redding, Insider ranked the best romantic songs across the decades. The 60 best love songs of all time, ranked Skip to ...
Sky was a Canadian R&B-influenced pop rock duo from Montreal, Quebec. It originally consisted of James Renald (1971–2018) and Antoine Sicotte , son of actor Gilbert Sicotte . Both were songwriters, producers, and multi-instrumentalists who met in 1992 at a music engineering school in Montreal. [ 1 ]
Some have considered the music of the song similar to that on Morrison's second studio album Astral Weeks. [1] The song is a moderate tempoed acoustic ballad in 4/4 time, with one 5/8 bar before the vocal comes in. The song is in the key of G major, with the chord progression of Em-C-Em-C-Em-C-D-D. [2] [3]
"Lovers on the Sun" is a country, folk and EDM song. [6] Mike Einziger of the band Incubus, who also played on Avicii's "Wake Me Up", also plays guitar on this track.The song is written in the key of B minor, at a tempo of 125 beats per minute, with Martin's vocals ranging from A 2 to B 4. [7]
The song is written and performed in style reminiscent to the work of musician Bo Diddley, staying mostly on a single chord (A Major), while strumming barre chords (from B Major to E Major) down the guitar neck for the intro, outro, and breaks, and from B minor to D minor for the bridge.
The song was taken from the group's number one album Flesh and Blood, and was released as a single in late 1980. It peaked at No. 12 on the UK Singles Charts and No. 35 in Australia. It contains a Roland CR-78 drum machine rhythm backing and intricate bass guitar work that would become ubiquitous in many Roxy Music songs that followed.
Chris Squire explained that Anderson wrote the first verse with acoustic guitar; Squire takes credit for the riff in the chorus (in the words of Steve Howe, "do-de-do-do-do") and for a section in the middle of the song. The guitar riff for the song, said Steve Howe, came from a composition by his earlier band, Bodast, and the song was rarely ...