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Audio Autopsy, 1979: The Creative Birth of Hit-Songwriter, Desmond Child, on Capitol Records

🌈Livin' on a Flair: The "male Diane Warren" has given hard rock a desperately-needed melodic sheen, which has resulted in re-shaped careers, while mercifully re-tooling a dull. ponderous genre.🎶

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Desmond, late-'70s, as a budding pop star, and (r), as an internationally successful (and award-winning) songwriter.

John Charles Barrett was born in Florida in 1953. Known professionally as singer/songwriter/producer, Desmond Child, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008, and has been nominated …

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