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...also happened to have a good voice and caught the ear of Cheiron's Denniz PoP, who shifted Crichlow's focus to song-writing. The hits soon followed. With PoP and Max Martin, Crichlow penned the Backstreet Boys' We've Got It Goin' On, while he and Martin wrote Quit Playin' Games...
...weren't for D., there would be no me," Crichlow says, so PoP's death in '98 hit hard. Crichlow left Cheiron that year. Some say the move meant the end of his career as a premier writer. Going it alone is unheard of in Sweden, where the music scene centers on collectives like Cheiron. So his recent work for B-list acts like No Authority got little notice...
...industry exec notes that Crichlow never lost his talent, just the people he needed to back him up. So it's worth watching The Bridge, Crichlow's new setup with producers Per Stappe and Ari Lehtonen. Their first project is a cover of Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar on Me for British group Five, to be released by summer...
...skeptics are still there; one producer says Crichlow is "done." But the "black sheep" of Swedish pop is sure he'll come up with the Golden Fleece. "I've made it this far for this long," he says...
...Anyway, we did the song "We Got It Goin' On," which became a big hit for the Backstreet Boys in Europe. It was "Quit Playing Games," which I wrote with Herbie Crichlow, that broke them in America. We had wanted a hit in America, but some of the early acts didn't really work, so we felt that it was impossible for Europeans. Ace of Base and Roxette were one thing, but that sort of just happened by itself. It wasn't a smart marketing plan that made that happen. They were just amazing songs that no one could stop...