Richard Marx on difficulties of working with Keith Urban
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American crooner Richard Marx talks about the difficulties of working with Australian country star Keith Urban – despite the couple having written a number of hit songs together
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American singer-songwriter Richard Marx has revealed that Keith Urban can be fickle when it comes to writing a hit song.
Marx, 59, who has written best-selling records for Barbara Streisand and American boy band NSYNC, says the Australian superstar is struggling to make up his mind when it comes to choosing the songs to record.
The pair had a disagreement over the tune One Day Longer, which they co-wrote for Marx’s latest album, Songwriter.
American singer-songwriter Richard Marx has revealed that Keith Urban can be fickle when it comes to writing a hit song
“This song, like several songs I’ve written with Keith over the years, was something he was madly in love with when we wrote it and was completely out of it three days later,” Marx said in an interview with the Herald Sun.
Hitmaker Right Here Waiting, who has sold more than 30 million albums, said the same thing happened when they wrote Keith’s 2005 hit Better Life.
After Urban rejected another song the pair wrote entitled Everybody, Marx recorded his own version of the song.
However, when Urban heard Marx’s version of the tune, he changed his mind and asked for it back.
Urban’s version of Everybody became a major country hit in the US, reaching number 5 on the Billboard chart in 2008.
Keith (pictured) has collaborated with Marx several times over the years — and each time he struggles to decide whether or not to keep the songs they wrote together.
Chicago-born Grammy winner Marx also recalled his lifelong friendship with the late Olivia Newton-John.
“For my 20th birthday, she took me to this wonderful restaurant,” he recalls.
“Which you couldn’t get into, but she was Olivia Newton-John . . . she was one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever known.”
In 2002, the two music legends collaborated on the duet Never Far Away.
Marx rose to fame in the 1980s with a string of hits in the US, including Satisfied, Endless Summer Nights and Hold on the Nights.
The superstar will tour Australia in 2023, with concerts in Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Wollongong and Melbourne.
The Richard Marx Songwriter Tour tickets continue sale October 6
The pair have worked on a handful of hits together over the years