{"id":321,"date":"2019-03-03T19:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/whats-happening-now\/?p=321"},"modified":"2019-04-10T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:30:28","slug":"tonight-on-axs-tvs-show-the-top-ten-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/whats-happening-now\/tonight-on-axs-tvs-show-the-top-ten-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight on AXS TV’s show The Top Ten Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

I wrote my very first song in 1972. The music was SO GOOD that year that despite not knowing how to play an instrument I just started writing because I was so inspired. My very first song was written to the melody of “Alone Again Naturally” by Gilbert O\u2019Sullivan, one of the biggest records of the year and easily one of my all time favorite records ever. Then I called a friend who could play piano and he brought over the sheet music to \u201cNever Can Say Goodbye” and played the\u00a0chords backwards, from the end of the song to the beginning. I always could sing a melody to anything, the clock ticking, birds singing, anything that forms a rhythmic pattern. And so my first song, \u201cAin\u2019t No Man Worth It\u201d was born. Which got me a record deal on Epic for my one and only album, Childstar, the title of the second song I ever wrote. This Sunday on\u00a0AXS TV<\/a>‘s show The Top Ten Revealed we’re ranking the most epic songs of ’72! It\u2019s an all-new episode starting at 8:30\/7:30c.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote my very first song in 1972. The music was SO GOOD that year that despite not knowing how to play an instrument I just started writing because I was so inspired. My very first song was written to the melody of “Alone Again Naturally” by Gilbert O\u2019Sullivan, one of the biggest records of the year and easily one of my all time favorite records ever. Then I called a friend who could play piano and he brought over the sheet music to \u201cNever Can Say Goodbye” and played the\u00a0chords backwards, from the end of the song to the beginning. I always could sing a melody to anything, the clock ticking, birds singing, anything that forms a rhythmic pattern. And so my first song, \u201cAin\u2019t No Man Worth It\u201d was born. 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