Schwartz, Eddie - No Refuge

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	No Refuge	05:09
	2	Spirit of the Night	04:24
	3	Tonight	03:42
	4	Good With Your Love	03:46

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Heart On Fire	02:48
	2	Over the Line	03:45
	3	Auction Block	04:08
	4	All Our Tomorrows	05:20

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Information/Write-up

Eddie (Edward Sydney) Schwartz. Songwriter, singer, record producer, b Toronto 22 Dec 1949; BA (York) 1976. He began writing songs in his teens and fronted the Toronto rock band Icarus in the late 1960s. After studying English literature and music at York University, he turned to songwriting professionally in 1978 and had his first major success in 1980 with 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot,' an international hit for the US singer Pat Benetar. Under his own name, Schwartz released three LPs 1980-4: Schwartz (A&M SP 9047), No Refuge (A&M SP 9056) and Public Life (WEA 25 03411). The single 'All Our Tomorrows' (1982) was a modest hit internationally while 'Does a Fool Ever Learn?,' 'Over the Line,' and 'Special Girl' were popular in Canada. After 1984 he concentrated on studio work as a songwriter and producer.

Schwartz, who has collaborated with various other writers, most notably the Toronto producer and keyboard player Dave Tyson, also has had his songs recorded by the British singers Paul Carrack ('Don't Shed a Tear,' a major hit in 1987) and Joe Cocker, by the US artists America ('Special Girl'), Rita Coolidge, the Doobie Brothers, Meatloaf, Eddie Money, Jeffrey Osborne ('Room with a View'), the Pointer Sisters, Carly Simon, and Donna Summer ('Fascination'), and by the Canadians April Wine, Long John Baldry, Véronique Béliveau, Candi, Doug and the Slugs, Helix, Honeymoon Suite, Peter Pringle, and Erroll Starr. He has produced or co-produced (with Tyson and others) recordings of his songs by Baldry, Carrack, Coolidge, the Doobie Brothers, Osborne and Summer.

Schwartz won Juno Awards as composer of the year (for 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot,' 1980) and as most promising male vocalist (1981), and received PROCAN's Wm Harold Moon Award in 1988 for international achievement by a Canadian.

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