His achievements include selling 53 million albums, eight top ten albums, two number one singles on the Billboard charts, and awards from both the American Music Awards and Grammy Awards.
Michael Bolton had an extensive, though not very successful, career under his real name, Michael Bolotin, before emerging in the mid-'80s as a major soft rock balladeer. Bolton began recording in 1975. This first album was self-titled using his original surname, Bolotin. Early in his musical career, he focused on hard rock. His band, Blackjack, once toured with heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne. He turned up on RCA Records in the mid-'70s singing in a gruff, Joe Cocker-like voice both his own blue-eyed soul songs and cover tunes. Neither record buyers nor critics were much interested by the result. He then became the lead singer in Blackjack, a heavy metal band that made two albums for Polydor at the end of the '70s and the start of the '80s. In 1983, he changed his name to Michael Bolton, signed to Columbia Records as a solo act, and relaunched his career.
Michael Bolton was released in April 1983, and made the Top 100 bestsellers, as did its single, "Fools Game." At the same time, "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," which Bolton had co-written, became a Top 40 hit for Laura Branigan. Nevertheless, Bolton's second Columbia album, Everybody's Crazy (1985), was a commercial flop. His breakthrough came with his third album, The Hunger, released in September 1987. On this album, Bolton abandoned the more hard rock aspects of his style to concentrate on blue-eyed soul singing: both on his own songs, such as "That's What Love Is All About," and on covers like Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." Those two songs became Top 40 hits.
Soul Provider, released in July 1989, turned Bolton into a superstar, reaching the Top Ten, selling four million copies, and spawning five Top 40 singles, including Bolton's number one version of "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," and the Top Ten hits "How Can We Be Lovers" and "When I'm Back on My Feet Again." "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" won Bolton a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Time, Love & Tenderness, released in April 1991, was even more successful, hitting number one, selling six million copies, and featuring four Top 40 hits, including the chart-topping cover of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," and the Top Ten hits "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (later the subject of a successful plagiarism suit brought against Bolton by the Isley Brothers) and "Time, Love and Tenderness."
Bolton won another Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, for "When a Man Loves a Woman," but he had to put up with abuse from two camps of detractors at the February 1992 ceremony. Just after Bolton had performed, pre-rock songwriter Irving Gordon won the Song of the Year award for "Unforgettable" and pointedly attacked songs that "scream, yell, and have a nervous breakdown" and singers who "have a hernia" when they sing. Then, backstage, Bolton faced a hostile press corps of critics unhappy with his tendency to copy great soul singers like Redding, Ray Charles, and Sledge. Bolton suggested they apply their lips to a certain part of his anatomy. He further responded with Timeless: The Classics in September 1992, an album made up entirely of cover songs. It went to number one, sold three million copies, and featured a Top 40 hit in Bolton's version of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." Bolton's next album of original material, The One Thing, came in November 1993. It hit the Top Ten, sold three million copies, and featured the Top Ten hit "Said I Loved You...But I Lied." Bolton released Greatest Hits 1985-1995 in the fall of 1995, which debuted in the Top Ten. The following year, This Is the Time: Christmas Album appeared.
Bolton returned with All That Matters, his first album of new material since 1993's The One Thing, in the fall of 1997. Instead of continuing his success, it was a surprise flop. Not only did it not generate a hit single, it barely cracked the Top 40 and fell out of the charts after 15 weeks. Its lack of success didn't stop Bolton from turning his attention to My Secret Passion, a collection of opera and arias that he released in January 1998. By classical standards, the album was a hit, and the record received a great deal of press and surprisingly good reviews. He supported the two albums with a summer tour which were co-headlined with Wynonna Judd. He voluntarily stepped back for almost four years, disappearing from the public eye until the spring of 2002 when he began promoting Only a Woman Like You, his first album on Jive Records. After a brief sabbatical, he returned with Til the End of Forever, a hybrid new album of seven new recordings and a live greatest-hits concert. In 2006 he released Bolton Swings Sinatra, a 12-song tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes that included a duet with fiancée/actress Nicolette Sheridan.
It would be worth mentioning "Can I Touch You There" proved to be one of the all-time hit love songs from Micheal Bolton from the album Greatest Hits.
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Everytime
Michael Bolton Lyrics
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It's more than I need to survive
Just when I stopped believin'
That's when you came into my life
You turned it around
Within you I found
Everything that's real to me
And that's just where I want to be
[Chorus]
Every time you give your love, it's a fire, it's a miracle
Every time I feel your love in my life, I know it's a miracle
You've got the power, you know it
To touch my every fantasy
When we make love, you show it
In everything you give me
So take what you want, take what you will
You're the one who holds the key
To open up the door, to reach the deepest part of me
[Chorus]
Every time you give your love, it's a fire
Every time I feel your love in my life, I know it's a miracle
Every time, every time
Just when I stopped believin', girl, you stepped into my life
You give me the fire I needed
It was so hard to find, you're givin' it every time
[Chorus]
The song "Everytime" by Michael Bolton speaks about the transformative power of love. The singer sings about how he had lost faith in love before the woman in his life came along and changed everything. He says that her love is more than he needs to survive and that he is lost inside it. She has the power to touch his every fantasy and he knows that every time she gives her love, it's a miracle. He emphasizes that she holds the key to his deepest parts and that he wants to be with her always.
The lyrics reveal a deep connection between the singer and the woman he loves. He believes that her love is the miracle that has brought him back to life. He speaks about how lost he was before she came into his life and how she has turned everything around for him. The message that the song conveys is that love can transform a person's life and make everything seem possible again.
In conclusion, "Everytime" is a powerful love song that emphasizes the transformative power of love. It speaks about how a person's life can change when they find the right person to love. The lyrics are filled with passion and emotion and it is evident that the singer is deeply in love with the woman in his life.
Line by Line Meaning
Don't want to lose this feelin'
I am cautious not to let go of the way you make me feel.
It's more than I need to survive
Your love exceeds my basic needs for existence.
Just when I stopped believin'
I lost faith in love, but you came along.
That's when you came into my life
You arrived just in time to revive my heart.
You turned it around
You saved me from despair and brought me hope.
Within you I found
I encountered in you.
Everything that's real to me
What my heart truly cherishes.
I'm lost inside your love
Your affection blurs my senses and captures me.
And that's just where I want to be
I desire to remain under your love's embrace.
Every time you give your love, it's a fire, it's a miracle
Receiving love from you is a consuming and wondrous experience.
Every time I feel your love in my life, I know it's a miracle
I'm aware of how special and life-changing your love is to me.
You've got the power, you know it
You possess the ability to deeply affect me.
To touch my every fantasy
You can fulfill all my desires and dreams.
When we make love, you show it
Your actions reveal how much you care during our intimate moments.
In everything you give me
All your efforts and gifts to me.
So take what you want, take what you will
You have the freedom to take what you need from me.
You're the one who holds the key
You have control over our relationship's direction.
To open up the door, to reach the deepest part of me
You can open up my heart and connect to my innermost self.
Just when I stopped believin', girl, you stepped into my life
You proved my doubts concerning love wrong by entering my life.
You give me the fire I needed
Your love ignites the passionate fire in me.
It was so hard to find, you're givin' it every time
I searched for love devotedly, and you give it to me consistently.
Every time, every time
Repeatedly and always you grant me your love, and it means everything to me.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: MICHAEL BOLTON, MARK MANGOLD
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