steve winwood roll with it movie soundtrack

Shortly after “Roll With It” began climbing the Hot 100 singles chart, a snippet of Winwood's keyboard-heavy “Don’t You Know What the Night Can Do” began appearing in Michelob beer commercials. Otherwise, however, he followed his “entertainer” template and produced an album that hit No. Winwood would eschew the famous guests on Roll With It, which arrived on June 20, 1988. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and yielded four singles, including the chart-topping “Higher Love.” It's not just 'I'm entertaining them' but 'I am actually an entertainer.''Īrmed with that realization, Winwood brought in producers, engineers, session musicians and guest stars (including James Taylor, Chaka Khan and Joe Walsh) for Back in the High Life, which went to No. 'I thought about it long and seriously, and I thought that if I sing songs to people, you can't deny it, you're an entertainer. 'You have to decide which way to go,' he added. ''Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted'' - Kip Hanrahan (Pangaea-I.R.S.So, he had a choice. ''Daydream Nation'' - Sonic Youth (Enigma)ġ0. ''Long Live the Kane'' - Daddy Kane (Cold Chillin'-Warner Brothers)ĩ. ''It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back'' - Public Enemy (Def Jam)Ĩ. ''Lovesexy'' - Prince (Paisley Park-Warner Brothers)ħ. ''Easily Slip Into Another World'' - Henry Threadgill Sextett (RCA-Novus)ĥ. ''Look What I've Got'' - Betty Carter (Verve-Polygram)Ĥ. ''Triplicate'' - Dave Holland (ECM-Polygram)ģ. ''Blue Skies'' - Cassandra Wilson (JMT-Polygram)Ģ. ''Gipsy Kings'' - Gipsy Kings (Elektra) Peter Watrous's Top 10ġ. ''Short Sharp Shocked'' - Michelle Shocked (Mercury-Polygram)ġ0. ''Julie Wilson Sings Stephen Sondheim'' - Julie Wilson (DRG)ĩ. ''I'm Your Man'' - Leonard Cohen (Columbia)ħ. ''Nothing but the Truth'' -Ruben Blades (Elektra)Ħ. ''Land of Dreams'' - Randy Newman (Reprise)ĥ. Gibson's soon-to-be-released follow-up have been on the market for a while.Ĥ. Will their vogue last? The answer should be known within six months after Tiffany's recently released second album, ''Hold an Old Friend's Hand'' and Ms. In 1988, two albums by teen-agers - Debbie Gibson's ''Out of the Blue'' and Tiffany's ''Tiffany'' - were among the Top 10. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, which sold over two million. The closest contender this year was ''He's the D.J., I'm the Rapper'' by D. While rap music proliferated in 1988, yielding more gold albums (sales of over 500,000) than in any other year, 1988 produced no single rap album to match the commercial clout of the twin blockbusters last year, the Beastie Boys' ''Licensed to Ill'' and Run-D.M.C.'s ''Raising Hell,'' each of which sold close to four million. No less than six of the year's top 20 albums could be categorized as hard-to-heavy metal rock. His artful studio pop has almost nothing stylistically in common with the metal rock that dominated the charts for most of the year.

Michael's achievement was all the more impressive because the singer, songwriter and producer does not belong to part of a broader trend.

Michael finished as the year's top album artist and its top singles artist. 1 pop album and compact disk and its title song the top single of 1988.

According to Billboard's year-end annual chart tallies, Mr. Surveying the past year in commercial pop music, 1988 was the year of George Michael.

Steve winwood roll with it movie soundtrack