The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane ( guitar / keyboards ) and Lætitia Sadier ( vocals / keyboards / guitar ), both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes.

Though Wow added strings and horns to some songs, their basic sound remained consistent from the debut album, featuring tight harmonies, multiple guitars, imaginative songwriting, and a strong level of musicianship.

Despite widespread critical recognition, Weller has remained a national rather than an international star, and much of his songwriting is rooted in English culture.

Known for the high quality of their vocal performances, musicianship, and songwriting, they produced finely-crafted and innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years.

" You Lost the Sweetest Boy " was one of the first hit singles composed by the successful Motown songwriting and producing trio of Holland-Dozier-Holland, though Robinson remained Wells ' primary producer.

Frey and Seger remained friends and occasional songwriting partners in later years.

While their style has remained on the same path since Gratuitous Sax ..., they have nonetheless continued to push the boundaries of conventional pop music and songwriting, remaining both innovative and highly influential.

But Browne's songwriting ability remained impressive.

In his Allmusic review, critic Richie Unterberger praised the album, writing " Though a tad more erratic than his earlier efforts, his songwriting remained remarkably consistent.

At this stage in their collaboration, Lennon's and McCartney's songwriting was highly collaborative ; even when songs had a primary author the other would often contribute key parts, as with " No Reply " where McCartney provided a middle-eight for what was otherwise almost entirely a Lennon song.

Taylor is highly regarded for his songwriting skills.

In addition to the songwriting prowess of the writers and producers, one of the major factors in the widespread appeal of Motown's music was Gordy's practice of using a highly select and tight-knit group of studio musicians, collectively known as " The Funk Brothers ", to record the instrumental or " band " tracks of a majority of Motown recordings.

rightKander and Ebb were a highly successful songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander ( born March 18, 1927 ) and lyricist Fred Ebb ( April 8, 1928-September 11, 2004 ).

This album featured even stronger political themes, and songwriting that was to highly influence the " deathcore " scene in subsequent years.

Davies considered the song a professional milestone, where he managed to blend the commercial demands of a hit single with his own highly personal style of narrative songwriting.

The influence of the production methods can be heard in the albums Waylon Jennings went on to record in the 1970s ( with instrumentation highly unconventional for country music ) and his poetically sophisticated style of songwriting was highly influential on Kris Kristofferson.

He has also collaborated with musicians such as William Shatner, Regina Spektor and " Weird Al " Yankovic and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman.

Influenced by the massive discreditation campaign started by the Romanian media after the success of 1998's De cartier, the album was very liberal and experimental with production and songwriting techniques for its time in Romanian music.

Their fourth album Vheissu ( 2005 ) made significant changes by incorporating electronic beats, keyboards, and more experimental and nuanced songwriting.

Allmusic's John Bush praised the album, writing " Despite all attempts to sabotage his songwriting and production with innumerable experimental tidbits, songs within a song, and ( seemingly ) tossed-off arrangements, Damon Gough has to face the fact that he wrote and produced over a dozen excellent songs of baroque folk-pop for his album debut, and the many gems can't help but shine through all the self-indulgence.

It moved away from the dance floor, with increased production values, experimental songwriting and sponsored by the greatest Coca Cola marketing campaign in Latin America.

Darren obliged and the two would set in motion a sort of songwriting ping-pong match that would carry on for several months until Darren was asked to fill in as drummer for Earthsuit as the experimental Christian-rock band began to quickly dissolve.

The varied instrumentation and experimental songwriting on the album invoked comparisons to work by Steve Reich, Neil Young, and The Cure.

Members of the American experimental rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ( The End Records ) have also reported using IMM's " songwriting games " at times to generate material for albums.

These recordings were substantially different from anything Depeche Mode had released — whilst they were still created using synthesizers and sampling, they featured little of Depeche Mode's catchy pop songwriting, instead opting for an experimental, John Cage-esque style.

Nirvana was created as the performing arm of the London-based songwriting partnership of Irish musician Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek composer Alex Spyropoulos.

U2 frontman Bono holds Orbison as a standard in musical creativity, commenting in 1999, " The thing people don't talk about enough as far as I'm concerned is how innovative this music was, how radical in terms of its songwriting.

Her relationship with Gilbert became acrimonious soon after the album was released, and disputes arose about songwriting credits.

One of his earliest songwriting efforts was " Needles and Pins " which he co-wrote with Jack Nitzsche, another member of Spector's production team.

" The rest of the day was spent going over the musical, and Sondheim would later say that " in that afternoon I learned more about songwriting and the musical theater than most people learn in a lifetime.

The songwriting genesis for " Earth Angel " was a matter of some dispute, eventually ending up in a split credit between Penguins baritone Curtis Williams, Gaynel Hodge, and Jesse Belvin.

As was the case with their previous, self-titled record, Robertson contributed the majority of the songwriting.

The new material placed more of a focus on songwriting and the music was influenced by heavy metal, arena rock and Chicago blues.

In January 2008, it was reported that Marr had taken part in a week-long songwriting session at Moolah Rouge recording studio in Stockport with Wakefield indie group The Cribs.

" The only contentious issue was whether Mr Joyce was an equal partner entitled to ¼ of the profits arising out of the activities ( other than songwriting or publishing ) of ' The Smiths '.

Morrissey's songwriting was influenced by punk rock and post-punk bands such as the New York Dolls, The Cramps, and The Cult, along with 1960s girl groups, and singers such as Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull and Timi Yuro.

Lorenz Milton Hart ( May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943 ) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.

Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator was also a major influence on his songwriting and vocal delivery, which is especially notable on the first two Marillion albums.

As writer Ian MacDonald noted, Martin was one of the few record producers in the UK at the time who possessed the sensitivity The Beatles needed to develop their songwriting and recording talent.

Much of the production on the album was done on " days off " from performances in the UK, and most of the songwriting was done in the studio itself.

The album was written and recorded during a period of turmoil for the group, after visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India and having a particularly productive songwriting session in early 1968.

After transcribing other people's music for a small music publisher, Webb was signed to a songwriting contract with Jobete Music, the publishing arm of Motown Records.

Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs, although Plant would receive no songwriting credits on the band's first album, allegedly because he was still under contract to CBS Records at the time.

This was seen by many fans as a return to a more bright and epic sound after the previous songwriting differences in Feel Euphoria.

It was recorded in Finn's own Roundhead Studios and will feature all-new material, with singing and songwriting contributions divided amongst the group.

On six of those songs the songwriting credit was in the name of Grace Cook, Hazel's mother.