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" Broken Wings " is a 1985 song recorded by American pop rock band Mr. Mister. It was released in June 1985 as the lead single from their second album Welcome to the Real World. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1985, where it remained for two weeks.
Apr 24, 2024 · Richard Page, the lead singer of Mr. Mister, wrote the song with the help of his bandmates Steve George and John Lang. In an interview Page gave to Songfacts, he revealed that the inspiration for the song came from a conversation he had with his wife.
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Dec 19, 2016 · MV. – “Broken Wings” was released in 1985 as the lead single from Mr. Mister’s sophomore album “Welcome to the Real World”. Co-written by Richard Page, Steve George and lyricist John Lang, the idea of the song, was taken from a poetic novel of the same name, written by Khalil Gibran.
Jul 9, 2019 · “Broken Wings” was written by two members of Mr. Mister (Steve George and Richard Page) along with songwriter John Lang. Lang seems to be the one who actually originated it, as the title is based on him being inspired to pen the song by the early-20 th century novel “The Broken Wings” by Khalil Gibran.
This classic pop song was inspired by a book the lyricist John Lang read called The Broken Wings, which was written by the Lebanese poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran. The book, which was written in 1912, is a story of a love that is doomed by social convention.
Paul De Villiers & Mr. Mister. “Broken Wings” is the lead single from Mr. Mister’s second album Welcome to the Real World. John Lang, one of the track’s songwriters, used Khalil Gibran’s book...
Singer Richard Page, keyboardist Steve George, and Richard’s cousin John Lang magically wrote the first single, Broken Wings, in 20 minutes. Taking its title from Kahlil Gibran’s 1912 book, Wings picked up on Gibran’s themes of unconditional love pitted against worldly trials.
