Michael McDonald

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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McDonald says that earlier in his career, he tended to avoid writing about himself directly in songs. He opens up about his life and career in the memoir, What a Fool Believes. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about his first band as a tween, his songwriting process, and being big in the Black community.

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0:24.9	this is fresh air I'm Tanya Mosley I keep forgetting things will never be the same again
0:39.2	again I keep forgetting things will never be the same again I keep forgetting how you made that
0:42.3	so clear.
0:44.0	I keep forgetting love.
0:47.0	Every time you need,
0:50.0	every time I see your smile.
0:55.0	Hear your hello,
1:00.0	saying you can only stay a while.
1:05.0	And I know that it's fine for you to say the thing.
1:10.0	And I know that it's fine for you to say the things we both know what you
1:18.0	a time that park away
1:20.0	I keep forgetting when not in love anymore When this single I Keep Forgetting by Michael McDonald came out in 1982
1:29.6	it rose to the top of the pop R&B and Adult Contemporary Billboard charts. The song is from
1:35.2	McDonald's first solo album, If That's What It Takes, and was actually
1:39.5	inspired by a 1962 song with the same name by Chuck Jackson.
1:44.3	As we learn in a new memoir,
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