Initially, he wanted Junior Vasquez to produce it, which we were delighted about, because it was quite a coup to have the song accepted in the first place." ![]() Rob asked us to write a song and we came up with the song 'Dov'é L'Amore'. He explains: "Thanks to the work we had done with Gina and Danni for Warners, we had a good relationship with Rob, and that's why we got the opportunity to work with Cher. Mark, whose previous production credits include Gina G and Danni Minogue, says the fact that the single happened at all is down to a series of lucky breaks, which began when Metro's songwriters were asked by Rob Dickins to submit a song for possible inclusion on Cher's new album. As released, the single incorporates the work of six different songwriters, two producers and executive producer Rob Dickins (the erstwhile chairman of Warner Brothers, who has now left the company for pastures new). According to Mark, despite the track's mainstream commercial success, the story behind the creation of 'Believe' is a strange one. Together, Mark and Brian run Metro Productions, a production and publishing company which operates from Dreamhouse, a three-studio complex in Kingston, Surrey. ![]() What's less well-known is that it was produced by two London-based producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling, in their own studio. ![]() Sue Sillitoe relates the astonishing tale of 'Believe'.įor most of last year, it looked as though Celine Dion's track 'My Heart Will Go On' was going to be the best-selling single of 1998 - but this accolade was snatched from the Canadian Queen of AOR at the 11th hour by another female vocalist who not only launched a successful challenge for the title, but did so with a song that was massively different from anything she had ever done before.įor those of you who've been stuck on a radio-less desert island for the last two months, the single in question is Cher's dance hit, 'Believe', which spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts and - at the time of going to press - had already achieved sales of 1.5 million and rising. Yet, surprisingly, it was produced in a small studio in West London. It was the best-selling single of 1998 and signalled a radical change of musical direction for Cher - complete with bizarre vocal processing.
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