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Richard Marx | Artist Essentials
First released: 1987 (year verified)
Original 1987 studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The quick instrumental accents keep the chorus moving beneath its sustained vocal line.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 1987 (year verified)
The original studio recording was released in 1987 and belongs to the original Richard Marx program. Year precision does not assign an album day to a single or a later reissue.
Recording: Original 1987 studio recording
Credit: Richard Marx
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: Richard Marx
Original album association; the supported year is not an exact worldwide release day.
Richard Marx - licensed original studio program
The public licensed original album program identifies Richard Marx and the selected 1987 studio recordings. Original program membership and year are used; January placeholders, compilation years, acoustic remakes and live versions are not treated as exact first-release events. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
In the yearly lists
These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.
The retained 1988 hit concerns the original studio recording already released in the 1987 debut program; the annual carryover does not redate it.
Richard Marx - licensed original studio program
The public licensed original album program identifies Richard Marx and the selected 1987 studio recordings. Original program membership and year are used; January placeholders, compilation years, acoustic remakes and live versions are not treated as exact first-release events. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Richard Marx - original hit-recording anthology review
The licensed anthology identifies the original hit recordings and preserves their earlier album years. Its 1997 package date is not used for older songs. The conflicting inherited Now and Forever year is excluded from the published selection metadata and remains in the queue. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Repeat Offender Revisited - separately labeled later recordings
The separately titled Revisited program includes acoustic and live presentations and different studio renditions. Its inherited 1989 parent metadata does not prove those later versions were released in 1989. This collection selects recordings from the original eleven-track Repeat Offender program instead. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
About Richard Marx
Richard Marx is a Chicago-born performer, songwriter and producer whose solo catalog includes Hold On to the Nights, Right Here Waiting and Hazard. His early albums moved from the self-titled debut through Repeat Offender and Rush Street. He also built a substantial writing career for other singers, contributing to This I Promise You for NSYNC and Dance with My Father with Luther Vandross. Acoustic concerts offered another setting for his own songs.
Artist background sources
Richard Marx - Los Angeles Philharmonic artist biography
Chicago identity, performer/writer/producer roles, solo repertoire and album sequence, named external songwriting and acoustic performance. Rankings, sales totals, current projects and personal inspiration claims are omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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