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Simon & Schuster
October 2016
On Sale: October 18, 2016
352 pages ISBN: 1501153269 EAN: 9781501153266 Kindle: B01D8VHOZ6 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Grammy and Academy Award–winning songwriter Carole Bayer
Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of
her life in and out of the recording studio, from her
fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her
collaborations with some of the greatest composers and
musical artists of our time. For five decades, Carole Bayer Sager has been among the most
admired and successful songwriters at work, responsible for
her lyrical contributions to some of the most popular songs
in the English language, including “Nobody Does It Better,”
“A Groovy Kind of Love,” “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” and the theme
from the movie Arthur, “The Best That You Can Do” (about
getting lost between the moon and New York City). She has collaborated with (and written for) a dizzying
number of stars, including Peter Allen, Ray Charles, Celine
Dion, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Clint Eastwood, Kenny
“Babyface” Edmonds, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston,
Michael Jackson, Carole King, Melissa Manchester, Reba
McEntire, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon, Frank
Sinatra, and Barbra Streisand. Her relationship with composer Marvin Hamlisch was the basis
of the long-running hit musical, They’re Playing Our Song,
for which she wrote the lyrics. And her work with composer
Burt Bacharach, to whom she was also married for ten years,
produced pop standards such as “On My Own” and “That’s What
Friends Are For” (inspired by her friendship with Elizabeth
Taylor), which raised over two million dollars for AIDS
research. But while her professional life was filled with success and
fascinating people, her personal life was far more difficult
and dramatic. In this memoir, Carole Bayer Sager tells the
surprisingly frank and darkly humorous story of a woman
whose sometimes crippling fears and devastating
relationships inspired many of the songs she would
ultimately write. They’re Playing Our Song will fascinate anyone interested in
the craft of songwriting and the joy of collaboration, but
Carole Bayer Sager’s memoir is also a deeply personal
account of how love and heartbreak made her the woman, and
the writer, she is.
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