Producer Rick Nowels talks Madonna and Lana Del Rey
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“I always wanted to work with Madonna,” he says. “I loved her voice, her songwriting, and the great records she made with Pat Leonard, Stephen Bray and Nile Rodgers,
I was in Barney’s getting a tie for the Grammys and I saw Madonna there. I introduced myself, and I told her that she didn’t get the credit she deserved as a songwriter. Which is true, but it’s also an awkward thing to tell a huge superstar! She was very cool and gracious. I ended up getting a meeting with her in L.A. a few weeks later.”
“We wrote nine songs together — three made the Ray Of Light album: ‘The Power of Goodbye,’ ‘Little Star’ and ‘To Have and Not To Hold’,” Nowels explains. “It was a career-changing experience for me. Before that I had always done my co-writing with friends. But working with Madonna… it was the first time I had ever written one-on-one with a great artist/writer. After that I changed gears a little, and now I mostly collaborate directly with artists.”
