In her new memoir ‘My Name Is Barbra,’ Barbra Streisand explains how her real-life romance with James Brolin inspired Aerosmith’s ‘I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.’ https://t.co/biolYs7iF4
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) November 11, 2023
Barbra Streisand wrote in her memoir “My Name is Barbra” that her relationship with James Brolin inspired Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”
She remembers lying in bed with Brolin one night, when he told her, “I don’t want to fall asleep.” When she asked why, he sleepily replied: “‘Cause I’ll miss you.'”
Streisand later told that story on TV in a 1997 20/20 interview with Barbara Walters. Songwriter Diane Warren was watching that night, and she jotted down the exchange as inspiration, later using it in the lyrics for “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” Aerosmith later recorded the song, and it became their first no. 1 hit in 1998 and scored an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for Michael Bay’s “Armageddon”.
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