TockTockTock

I was just about to post that. Even though they butted heads a lot, I feel that the tension they had helped create an amazing result. The same can be said about Michael Rother and Thomas Dinger of Neu.

Neapolitan

I don't know, maybe if it's only UK Rock bands. As much as I like The Smiths I think there could be other canidates that are just as worthy at the #3 spot. Most bands I like write as a band and I really don't know if there is a songwriting duo behind them. I think one of the best that doesn't get mention much as a writing team is Winwood/Capaldi (with Chris Wood on some tracks). I think Jim Capaldi is under-rated as a songwriter. His lyrics had meaning behind them. Even the next bunch really wrote some meaningful lyrics as well. Since they didn't write hundreds of hits, I give them honourable mention: Difford & Tilbrook, Ashford and Simpson, Leiber and Stoller, Gamble and Huff. And another honourable mention to Rice and Webber, I mean "Jesus Christ Superstar" rocked like it was written by Curved Air.

Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi
Paper Sun
Pearly Queen
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Freedom Rider
Empty Pages
Dear Mr. Fantasy (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood)
Heaven Is in Your Mind (Capaldi, Winwood, Wood)

Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook
Vanity Fair
Annie Get Your Gun
Black Coffee in Bed
Up The Junction
Tempted

Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
California Soul (5th Dimension, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, and Marlena Shaw)
Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
You're All I Need to Get By

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Jail House Rock
Kansas City
Stand By Me

Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff
If You Don't Know Me by Now
Love Train
Me and Mrs. Jones (with Cary Gilbert)
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
List of songwriter collaborations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Did you ever have a reflection upon Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus? I was curious since you live relatively close to ground zero. I mean respectively compare to where other members live. I don't know if you are strictly Prog, (I guess what I'm asking) did you ever have a foray into Pop?

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Guybrush

Of course I listen to a lot of pop and don't really consider myself a proghead at all. About Benny and Bjørn, I feel like I've heard enough ABBA to last me a lifetime, starting with LPs from when I was a kid. But there's no denying they wrote great pop songs - and lots of them. My personal favorites may be Voulez Vous and SOS

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Neapolitan

They weren't too popular here, so they never worn on me. I can take them or leave them depending on the song. But I still love SOS, Pete Townsend said it was the greatest Pop song ever written. What I like about it is like a mini Prog song, under three and a half minutes.

It wasn't a writing partnership like Elton and a Bernie Taupin were like everything was a colabortain. They did write some songs together, but Lou Reed singularly gets the credit for something like 73% of the songs on VU & Nico. But I'm not saying the Cale or the other had no imput, even Moe got credit on European son, and the band as a whole contribute to the music as a whole. Still "Sunday Morning" is enough to mention them.

I guess another example would be Mike Love and Brian Wilson there a few songs, but Brian wrote most, some with outside (of the band) help.

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TockTockTock

I wouldn't say so at all. Reed (usually) wrote the lyrics and created the general idea and/or melody... whereas Cale developed them into something more interesting and unique. It's like... Reed came up with a pencil drawing and Cale turned it into a painting. So, I would say it's around 50/50 as far as the songwriting is concerned.

Hazlehurst

I'm going to have to throw two partnerships in to the hat here:

Mercury/May
Godley/Creme

Urban Hat€monger ?

David Bowie & Coke

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jonnymega

lennon/mccartney imo made a huge and lasting impression

Neapolitan

Still you ca't say they worked together the same way John & Taupin did - using them (J&T) as one example of songwriting team in the traditional sense. Lennon and McCartney didn't either, Paul would write the song and John would givehis imput and vice a versa.

50/50? What about Sterling and Moe, what are they... chop liver? Lou wrote the song and the band together turun it into the final peice of artwork.

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TockTockTock

I'm talking about between the two of them. Tucker and Morrison were vital in The Velvet Underground's rhythm section and gave it that quasi-indie rock feel.