Todays presentation reminded of us just how awful fashion was in the eighties.. Today’s artist, Matthew Wilder scored on both sides of the Atlantic with this catchy tune – “Break My Stride”

Just going back to last months Mystery Lyrics for a moment, I presented a band that I had seen live in concert over christmas. Since then a video of that very concert has been released on youtube. You can watch the song I presented “Jesus Came Down” by Lake by clicking here.



Todays artist is an American musician and record producer, most famous for todays song which reached no. 5 in the billboard charts in 1983

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He started his musical career as one-half of a Greenwich Village
folk group in the 1970s. In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles,
California, and sang for television commercials, and as a
backing vocalist for Rickie Lee Jones and Bette Midler. His debut
album reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He also had
some continued success with the single “The Kid’s American”,
which reached #33 in 1984, but the single failed to match the success
of todays song. His second album, Bouncin’ Off the Walls (1984),
failed to gain much momentum — even with an innovative music
video for the single “Bouncin’ Off the Walls”, with only the title
track making the charts (#52), and was subsequently deemed a
commercial failure.

Despite the collapse of his solo career, he continued his career
in the music industry as a songwriter and as a record producer
for such acts as No Doubt, 702, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson,
and Joanna Pacitti. He lent his singing voice to the character of Ling
and was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score
(along with David Zippel and Jerry Goldsmith) for his work on the
Disney film Mulan (1998). He has also done production work on
Australian singer-songwriter Mig Ayesa’s self-titled album released in
April 2007 and has helped with production on Hayden Panettiere’s album.

For theatre, he has once again paired with Zippel to provide the music and lyrics for Princesses, a musical comedy update of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel A Little Princess. The production ran at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle but has yet to open on Broadway.

He produced the hit album Tragic Kingdom for the band No Doubt. He has also worked with singer Miley Cyrus on her Hannah Montana song “G.N.O. (Girls Night Out)”.

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MATTHEW WILDER – BREAK MY STRIDE

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