They demanded nothing and remained steadfast by my side." You must have heard the story of your birth a thousand times by now, sweetheart. Your mother and I—home alone. Again, I wasn’t a poet ...

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“Not all songs have a story,” David Foster says. “But these five do.” He would know: In a career that stretches across more than half a century — and which took him from his native ...