Marcy Levy - Telephone Interview
If you know Marcy Levy's name, you read liner notes.
In a 35-year-career that has been both frustrating and rewarding, Levy has been at both the front and the back of the stage.
As Marcella Detroit with the duo Shakespear's Sister, she wrote and sang "Stay," a song that spent eight weeks at No. 1 in England in 1992, but her solo career has faltered repeatedly in the U.S., and she's best known as the backing singer on tour and records for Bob Seger, Leon Russell, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder.
Oh, and Eric Clapton.
From 1974 to '78 and 1984 to '85, Levy sang backup for Clapton in his band and co-wrote several songs with him, including "Innocent Times, on which she sang lead vocals, "Rollit," "The Core" and, of course, "Lay Down Sally," the 1978 No. 3 hit from the "Slowhand" album.
"Eric was very generous," she says of working with Clapton by telephone from her home in Los Angeles. "It wasn't like we'd rent a rehearsal studio. We didn't go to somebody's house to write the songs. They just put us in the studio and by the end of the day, we had the song, and after a few weeks, the album."
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Source: South Bend Tribune
