"So I didn't think that much of it because I hadn't written a song before. I just thought, oh, this was an interesting evening, you know. Happy to be of help. But he said, "No, no, no, this is going all over the world. You don't understand, this is a hit." And you know, Marvin said a lot of stuff. I said fine."

The First Time I Changed Pop Music, with David Ritz

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A bank robber describing his first and last heists, a BASE jumper on taking his first jump and why he’ll never do it again, an artist who died and came back to life. First Time Last Time features stories about people doing things for the first and last time. Each story is a short, powerful, technicolor portrait of how big and, sometimes, very small moments transform people and their lives. Subscribe to First Time Last Time for a whole summer season of new stories. New shows every 2 weeks!

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