After returning to Los Angeles the group recorded " The Train Song ", written during an increasingly infrequent songwriting session on the train and produced by 1950s R & B legends Larry Williams and Johnny " Guitar " Watson.

Following the minor chart success of " Rainbow Chaser ", " live appearances became increasingly rare " and the songwriting duo at the core of Nirvana " decided to disband the sextet " and to rely on session musicians for future recordings.

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 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.

In December 1964, as her husband went into military service, brother Eddie hired two English songwriting session musicians, Tommy Brown on drums and Mick Jones on guitar, as they went to record in New York.

In 1969, Maurice White, a former session drummer for Chess Records and former member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, joined two friends in Chicago, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead, as a songwriting team composing songs and commercials in the Chicago area.

" Buddy wrote this song, but gave Curtis the songwriting credit for flying down to the session.

The songwriting and arrangements were done during the twelve-week recording session at AIR Studios.

Similarly to Steely Dan, in the studio Mike + the Mechanics were not a tight-knit band but a vehicle for the songwriting of Rutherford, Robertson, and Neil, and session keyboardists, drummers, guitarists, and even lead vocalists often performed on the songs in place of the official band members.

In an interview with HitQuarters Hector said the basic idea for the song came to him while on a break from working on a hip hop session with Ezi Cut in Los Angeles: " I came up with a couple of lines for the first verse and then phoned my mama ’ s house, left it on the answering machine, and said, “ Don ’ t get rid of this !” Upon returning to England, Hector went into the studio to work on the idea with long-time songwriting partner and producer Steve Mac.

A songwriting session was booked within the next days.

Written by the group members with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard during the group's first professional songwriting session, it was produced by Rowe and Stannard for the group's debut album Spice, released in November 1996.

Chris Herbert booked the group's first professional songwriting session with the producers at the Strongroom in Curtain Road, East London in January 1995.

" The session was productive ; Stannard and Rowe discussed the songwriting process with the group, and talked about what the group wanted to do on the record.

Mcfly really began when Bourne invited Fletcher to a songwriting session one evening at Princess park manor at the Busted house.

McCartney said that was an incomplete description, and that " we sat down and wrote it together ... give him 60 percent of it ... we sat down together and worked on that for a full three-hour songwriting session.

Harrison had not yet written a song for the B-side when an impromptu gathering of the musicians who became the Wilburys turned into an informal songwriting and jam session.

Written by the group members, Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard during the group's first professional songwriting session, it was produced by Rowe and Stannard for the group's debut album Spice, released in November 1996.

In January 1995, Chris Herbert booked the group's first professional songwriting session with the producers at the Strongroom in Curtain Road, East London.

" The session was productive as the duo seemed to get along with the group, together they discussed about the songwriting process and what they wanted to do with the record.

The two conversed and discovered common interests, leading to a songwriting session between Fletcher, Jones and James Bourne.

Since the band's demise, each of the members maintained a loud presence in the world of session musicianship and songwriting.

A session with the production and songwriting duo Richard Stannard and Matt Rowe was booked to record the group's next single.

In an interview with RTE, Heffernan said that he met Williams in a Dublin pub and brought him back to his home where they embarked on a songwriting session.

Biafra had received sole songwriting credit for most Dead Kennedys songs on all released albums for the last 20 years or so without complaints from the band, though a minority of songs had given credit to certain group members or the entire band as a whole, indicating a system designed to reflect the primary composers rather than a regimented system like the Jagger / Richards partnership ; today, most Kennedys reissues list the songwriters as " Biafra, Dead Kennedys ", indicating Biafra's lyrical contributions — which the band doesn't dispute, or else simply as " Dead Kennedys ").

" As his vocals matured and deepened through his career, so did the Ramones ' songwriting, leaving a notable difference from Joey's initial melodic and callow style — two notable tracks serving as examples are " Somebody Put Something in My Drink " and " Mama's Boy ".

Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice — for the first time he played almost all the instruments himself.

" Robert Christgau wrote that " As a rule, American songwriting is banal, prolix, and virtually solipsistic when it wants to be honest, merely banal when it doesn't ", but found Newman's " truisms — always concise, never confessional —" to be " his own.

Maggie's " The Married Men " from this album was eventually to become the biggest hit of the songwriting trio — not for them, but for Phoebe Snow.

He reveals his emotional depth in his songwriting ability and his occasional — and seemingly accidental — profound thoughts.

With the success of " Easy Loving " and other songs he wrote, plus a popular concert attraction on the road, Hart became independently wealthy and owned a songwriting company, a school for the blind, a trucking company, and a chain of martial arts studios — his hobby was as a master of karate.

When Miss America was finally released in 1988, O ' Hara's songwriting ( a fusion of jazz, country, rock and pop ) and distinctive vocal style — which can move from a pure, angelic croon to a loud wail in seconds — quickly won her raves from critics and fellow musicians alike.

This approach of the Lennon – McCartney songwriting team — with elements of competitiveness and mutual inspiration as well as straightforward collaboration and creative merging of musical ideas — is often cited as a key reason for The Beatles ' innovation and popular success.

Mark Deming, writing for Allmusic, remarked that " The craft of Browne's songwriting is still strong, and his performances are pin-sharp and passionate, but unfortunately the very real strengths of The Naked Ride Home only make its flaws all the more glaring — namely, that Browne's muse hasn't taken him anyplace new and interesting in some time, and even though it's clear he still takes the arts of songwriting and recording very seriously, the results lack the depth or the impact of his earlier work.

" He adds that " the oversight is doubly vexing, because — in a songwriting and production partnership with Jimmy Jam ( aka James Harris III ) and Terry Lewis — is not just a multiplatinum pop act but an artist who has reshaped the sound and image of rhythm and blues over the last decade.

— Originally started as a musical explodingdog spinoff, now a songwriting contest between multiple artists.

The creation of Illinois marked a shift in Stevens ' emphasis on songwriting and studio work toward live performance and more abstract concepts of motion and sound — subsequent tours and albums emphasized electronic music and modern dance over the indie folk material on Michigan and Illinois.

* Britney Spears — vocals, songwriting

* Josh Schwartz — songwriting, producer

Noticing that they were spending large amounts of time thinking about music and waiting for inspiration to strike — instead of actually writing music — in early 2001 they developed a new songwriting method that involved composing prolifically while trying to avoid any kind of self-editing or self-consciousness.

* Madonna — lead vocals, background vocals, songwriting, producer