After no communication for several years, Ono contacted Spinozza late in 1980, for his permission to release "It Happened", a track from A Story, as a B-side to "Walking on Thin Ice", her tribute to the recently assassinated John Lennon and the last song they had recorded together.
The first album David produced in its entirety was the folk rock trio Arthur, Hurley & Gottlieb who were signed by Clive Davis during his ten years as president of Columbia Records.
[15] He held the first guitar chair in the Broadway orchestra of Hairspray[16] and, in 2009, reunited with his band from 1973, L'Image, which also includes Mike Mainieri, Warren Bernhardt, Tony Levin and Steve Gadd.
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