Rick Nowels

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Rick Nowels is an American music producer and songwriter who has enjoyed international success since the 1980s .

Career

Rick Nowels had his first big success with the song I Can't Wait for Stevie Nicks , which was a top 20 hit in the USA in early 1986. In the fall of 1987 Heaven Is a Place on Earth followed , which he produced for Belinda Carlisle and had also written with Ellen Shipley . The song was a number one hit in the United States, Great Britain and Switzerland, among others. Other hits by Nowels and Shipley for Belinda Carlisle included Circle in the Sand (1988) and Leave a Light on (1989). He also wrote another hit for Stevie Nicks in 1989: Rooms on Fire .

Nowles not only produces American artists, but also European musicians such as Eros Ramazzotti , Aura Dione and Lykke Li .

When it comes to songwriting, Nowels usually works with the interpreters or other songwriters. In the second half of the 1990s he often wrote songs with Billy Steinberg . Together they carried the title song for the album Falling into You by Celine Dion in 1997 and belonged to those who for the album participation with a Grammy Award were honored.

Since 2011 he has been working regularly for and with Lana Del Rey , whose hits Summertime Sadness and Young & Beautiful he counts as one of his ten best compositions.

Discography

Number one hits

other holdings

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  1. ↑ http://www.musicvf.com/songs.php?page=artist&artist=Rick+Nowels&tab=songaswriterchartstab
  2. ↑ Grammy database (search)
  3. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5672633/rick-nowels-lana-del-rey-co-writer-talks-summertime-sadness-and-his-catalog-of

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personal data
SURNAME Nowels, Rick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century