Produced by Bryan Adams. Recorded and mixed by Hayden Watson at The Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada. Mastered by Bob Ludwig.

In August 2015 Bryan Adams and I met with director Jerry Mitchell in London to discuss the possibility of collaborating on "Pretty Woman: The Musical". We spent an hour at a pizza restaurant in London's West End, getting acquainted and discussing the project.

Looking back, Jerry was taking a huge gamble. We had never written a Musical before. In  fact, it was significantly outside our comfort zone.

Perhaps that's what appealed to Jerry?

To get a sense of things, we asked Jerry to "walk us through" the opening scene, including a description of characters, set design, choreography ... in other words, everything he envisioned, assuming the project ended up going forward.

Jerry's a very animated and articulate fellow. He virtually "performed" the opening sequence for us, right there in the restaurant booth.

By the end of our meeting I could almost picture the  scene on stage:  the "Happy Man" character dancing down the sidewalk, greeting strangers, welcoming everyone to Hollywood. 

Regardless, I had serious reservations about taking this on. I mean, what did I know about musical theatre? (answer = almost nothing). 

We told Jerry we'd give it some thought, and we agreed to meet again in a few months time.

Song inspiration didn't strike immediately, nor did I think it ever would.  But a week or two after our meeting with Jerry an idea occurred to me one day while I was taking a walk in Toronto. It was just a few bars of lyric and melody to begin with, the key phrase being, "Welcome To Hollywood". I sang the idea into my iPhone so I wouldn't forget it, and when I got home I recorded a quick demo and I sent it to Bryan in London.

Bryan liked the idea, and we began sending emails back and forth, each of us contributing lyrics and melody until the song was more-or-less complete.

On November 1st, 2015 we met Jerry again, this time at his apartment in New York, along with producer Paula Wagner and writer J. F. Lawton. They weren't expecting us to have any music ready ... in fact, they were surprised when we played them our demo for "Welcome To Hollywood", and a second demo for "Long Way Home".

Long story short, they loved what they heard and they hired us on the spot!

Thus began a three-year journey that was equal parts Heaven and Hell.