![]() Just go and look at our faces on the video of that night – it’s all online. I don’t know when we’ve had a better show. So we thought we would bring things full circle by inviting Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin on stage with us. “We’d been there to see The Temptations just after we first met, and it had been an incredible night. Oates told me he realised he needed a break after the duo were invited to reopen the Apollo in New York in 1985. In a disturbing twist, the serial killer David Berkowitz claimed that he’d been “inspired” to commit his 1977 “Son of Sam” killing spree by the bouncy melody to “Rich Girl”. ![]() The Seventies hits began to flow slowly from that point, including 1975’s “Sara Smile” (about Hall’s then-girlfriend and collaborator Sara Allen) and 1976’s “Rich Girl” (actually about an arrogant, ex-boyfriend of Allen). When Daryl came in the next day, he sat down at the piano and gave it a more groove-oriented R&B sound.” But she didn’t show up, so I sat on my own with this acoustic guitar, playing this sorrowful lament. We’d seen each other once or twice and arranged to meet for New Year’s Eve. The song was written by Oates, “about a girl I met in Village in the middle of the night wearing a tutu and cowboy boots. But their second album, Abandoned Luncheonette (1973) saw them sway up the charts with the cafe soul of “She’s Gone”. Their 1972 debut album, Whole Oats, didn’t yield a hit. Watch Miley Cyrus perform “Midnight Sky” and “Maneater” below.Enjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign up “I sent her the song,” Cyrus explained, “and said, ‘You know I have an alternate melody if you don’t want me to kind of like pay tribute to you and your greatness and how much you’ve inspired me.’ And she said, ‘You can borrow from me anytime.'” She’s even better.”īefore getting to the performances, Cyrus also talked about a cool letter she got from Stevie Nicks after asking to use a sample of her track 1981 track, “Edge of Seventeen” on “Midnight City.” “When you meet her, she’s as incredible as you dream. “One thing I’ll say about Dolly is they say, ‘Don’t meet your heroes,’ but that doesn’t apply to her,” she said. So I always remind myself the fact that I’m one of the chosen people that get to do what I’m truly the most passionate about and call it any form of work is an honor, and I’m grateful for it every single day.”Ĭyrus also gushed about her godmother, Dolly Parton. When asked about how she continues all the work and how she’s lucky to get to do what she loves to do for a living, Cyrus said, “To love what you do, you don’t work a day in your life. “There’s no skeletons in the closet, I warned you first.”īoth performances brought her full band positioned at socially distant spots and neon lights with lots of smoke and sparkle.Ĭyrus also had a chat with Fallon from her colorful, abstract-looking throne that she called Giza and says is “mature for her age.” “I’m just, just wear it all out in the open,” she continued with a laugh. “I’m freshly single, so anyone watching that’s my future ex-husband, just know, I told you.” “I think it’s very important to be transparent,” Cyrus said. Not only did Cyrus perform “Midnight Sky” off her upcoming album, She is Miley Cyrus, but she also brought a rocked-out cover of Hall & Oates‘ “Maneater,” which she jokingly dedicated to her future ex-husband. 10), you knew it was going to be more than just a one-song-and-done kind of deal. ![]() When Miley Cyrus stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (Sept.
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