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A underrated song from Steve Winwood's 1986 Award winning Album "Back In The High Life" -Written by Winwood,George Fleming and James Hooker -The song charted as high as #20 on the U.S. Hot 100 and #4 on U.S. Mainstream Rock. It reach #69 on the UK singles chart. -The video incorporated footage from Winwood's 1986 music video "Higher Love" - A shot from the video was used as album cover for Winwood's follow-up 1987 compilation album "Chronicles" For More info check his official websites.. http://www.stevewinwood.com http://www.myspace.com/stevewinwood Keep on talking all you want Well you don't waste a minute of time Who cares, who knows what's true Coffee and tears the whole night through Burning up on midnight oil And it's come right back on you Freedom Overspill Freedom Overspill Force of habit, you could say The way they talk you're talking away Who cares, who knows what's true Your wounded pride is burning you up Burning up on midnight oil And it's come right back on...

An amazing classic from Steve Winwood's 1980 album "Arc Of A Diver" -The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and also reached #68 on the Billboard Top 100 for the year 1981, however it only reached #45 in the UK. -One of the song's most iconic features, its keyboard introduction, was not originally intended to be part of the song. The track was thrown together fairly quickly, and Winwood discovered that he had accidentally deleted his intended drum track introduction while preparing for vocals. He wrote a new introduction on the spot as a replacement. -According to co-writer Will Jennings who explains the line, "While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it" the lyric of the song is about realizing that you are all alone in this life and you have to do with it what you can - it was written around 1980 in a certain part of my life when I realized it was all on me to do, the lyric inspired by Steve's transcendent track." "Tthe next line explains it: 'Because it's...

The title track from Steve Winwood's 1986 Award winning album "Back In The High Life". -According to co-writer Will Jennings.. "We wrote those songs in the fall of '84, and it was a long spell before he got in the studio in New York. We had 'Higher Love' and several other songs, including 'The Finer Things.' And then it was toward the end of my stay over there and we still needed some other songs. I had 'Back in the High Life Again' in this book that I carry with me of titles. I pulled that out and I suddenly found the rest of the song, and I wrote that in about 30 minutes, and left it with Steve to put a melody to. So this is in '84. And then I went back to California, and it was a year, I guess, before he went in the studio, sometime in '85. I called one day and talked to Russ Titelman who was producing the album. They were doing it in New York. I asked him how it was going, and he said, 'Oh it's going great.' He said 'Higher Love' came out great and 'The Finer Things.' I asked...