Paul Anka
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"Paul Albert Anka", is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor. Anka became famous in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with hit songs like "Diana (Paul Anka song)/Diana", "Lonely Boy (Paul Anka song)/Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby". He wrote such well-known music as Johnny's Theme/the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones (singer)/Tom Jones's biggest hits, "She's a Lady", as well as the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra's signature song, "My Way (song)/My Way" (originally the French song "Comme d'habitude"). He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2005.

In 1983, he co-wrote the song "I Never Heard" with Michael Jackson. It was retitled and released in 2009 under the name "This Is It (Michael Jackson song)/This Is It". An additional song that Jackson co-wrote with Anka from this 1983 session, "Love Never Felt So Good", was since discovered and was released on Jackson's posthumous album Xscape (album)/Xscape in 2014. The song was also released by Johnny Mathis in 1984.

Anka became a Naturalization/naturalized US citizen in 1990.

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Tears in Heaven.

They are actually manufactured entertainment groups. They are a product of technology. What you are listening to is technology.

The main thing with Paul, because I've played with him for 14 years ... is that the energy that he puts into his show is intense. He doesn't take anything off the stage when he's done. He's left it all on that stage. Paul is the real thing.

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I don't know that there's a lot of longevity with a lot of attractions. Maybe a little more time should be put into it to allow that to grow.

Those guys, I won't mention names, they needed Vegas because they didn't have a career on the outside. Michael is doing well everywhere, and the longer you hold off coming into Vegas with success on the exterior, the better off it is. He will stick, without question.

I had a sense I had to do something different.

I never thought Howard Stern would say 'Paul Anka is cool.' But he did.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.