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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. Twilley and Phil Seymour performed as the Dwight Twilley Band through 1978, and Twilley performed as a solo act ...
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...
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...
Feb 19, 2016 · "I'm on Fire" is the debut single by the Dwight Twilley Band released in April 1975. The single peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1975. ...
Full Biography. Dwight Twilley and partner Phil Seymour created an enduring and highly memorable brand of power pop that blended Beatlesque pop and Sun rockabilly “slapback” echo. Only a fraction of the band’s early output was made available at the time, but these records are highly revered by power pop aficionados.
Oct 19, 2023 · Singer-songwriter Dwight Twilley, known for such power pop hits as “I’m on Fire” and “Girls,” has died. He was 72. His wife Jan confirmed a statement from Tulsa’s Church Studio, where ...
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.
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 · Tulsa-born singer-songwriter Dwight Twilley, who had U.S. Top 20 hits with “I’m on Fire” and “Girls,” has died at the age of 72. The leader of the Dwight Twilley Band, he went on to an...
Oct 20, 2023 · Dwight Twilley, a Tulsa musician who scored top 20 hits in the 1970s and 80s with songs like "I'm on Fire" and "Girls," died on Wednesday. He was 72. The Tulsa World reports Twilley was driving alone on Oct. 14 when he suffered a stroke and crashed his car into a tree.
