Give Me The Night

I woke up this morning to some rather disheartening news. It was announced that Rod Temperton, a British songwriter, had passed away after a short battle with cancer. Who was Rod Temperton, I can hear some of you asking? To simply dub him a songwriter isn’t enough. He’s a man who made you dance ecstatically, even if you didn’t know his name. He’s a man who wrote music you might’ve been conceived to in the 1970s, even if others did the vocals. He’s one of the best examples of blue-eyed soul, and this is my tribute to this legendary talent. I first heard Rod Temperton’s music when I was a young child. I was a fan of Michael Jackson’s music as a kid, but I didn’t know until years later that he didn’t write a lot of his biggest hits. There was one song of Jackson’s that I absolutely loved. You all know it as well. It’s “Thriller”. When I was a child on vacation in Upstate New York, that