AMERICAN SONGWRITER: The Writer’s Block: Eddie Schwartz on Writing Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” Burning Out, Then Releasing His First Album in 30 Years
SOURCE By Tina Benitez-Eves | Updated: November 20, 2025 12:44 pm It was the first day of spring on Yonge Street in Toronto, 1981, when Eddie Schwartz heard a familiar sound coming from the radio at a local hair salon. Flooding onto the street was a song Schwartz had written three years earlier in 1978. […]
Azam Ali
With a career spanning more than three decades, encompassing fifteen solo and collaborative albums, two prestigious JUNO Award nominations, a Hollywood Music Award, global tours, and featured solo vocal performances in some of Hollywood’s most iconic film and television scores, Azam Ali has firmly established herself as one of the most visionary and transcendent voices in contemporary music. […]
Eddie Schwartz
Eddie Schwartz is best known for writing such classic hit songs as “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” recorded by Pat Benatar, “Don’t Shed A Tear” by Paul Carrack, and “The Doctor” by the Doobie Brothers, as well as some two hundred songs recorded and performed by artists such as Joe Cocker, Carly Simon, Robert […]
Jonathan Richman
“As of a few years ago, I was going to just play theaters, cabarets and such, but we ended up by mistake at the Zebulon in Los Angeles and had such a fine time that those kind of shows have to happen too. So, you might see us nowadays in theaters, cabaret-style places, or the […]