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Dwight Twilley (June 6, 1951 – October 18, 2023) was an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known for the top 20 hit singles "I'm on Fire" (1975) and "Girls" (1984). His music is associated with the power pop style.
Nov 1, 2023 · Dwight Twilley, a singer and songwriter from Tulsa, Okla., who fused Merseybeat melodicism with a chugging rockabilly energy, earning critical praise if not stardom as a progenitor of what came...
Oct 19, 2023 · Dwight Twilley, one of the musicians who pioneered the rock subgenre known as power pop, died on Wednesday. He was 72. His death was confirmed by the Church Studio in Tulsa, Okla., where Twilley...
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Feb 19, 2016 · The single has a unique mix, with added reverb and vocal overdubs compared to the LP version. "I'm on Fire" is the debut single by the Dwight Twilley Band released in April 1975. The single...
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Nov 6, 2023 · Our rock critic Ken Tucker has an appreciation of rock singer-songwriter Dwight Twilley, who died late last month at the age of 72. Over the course of a career that began in the 1970s, the...
Oct 19, 2023 · Dwight Twilley, the power-pop singer-songwriter behind “I’m on Fire” and “Girls,” has died, his family wrote on Facebook and his wife confirmed to Variety. Twilley was 72.
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A pioneer of the rock subgenre power pop, Twilley, who hit the Top 20 on the Billboard charts with his singles "I'm on Fire" in 1975 and "Girls" in 1984 and worked with the likes of...