She asked to be freed of her contract.
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Elle fut inspirée par un poème de Lieberman, Killing Me Softly with His Blues, qu'elle écrivit après avoir vu … Gimbel had divorced his wife three years earlier, but Lieberman eventually stopped the sexual relationship she had with Gimbel because he "had become emotionally abusive, controlling and unfaithful." Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. Gimbel and Fox even wrote out for her this introduction of the song so that she could deliver it consistently at each performance.
Killing Me Softly with His Song est une chanson de 1972 composée par Charles Fox, écrite par Norman Gimbel en collaboration avec Lori Lieberman qui l'a enregistrée fin 1971. "I had a notion this might make a good song so the three of us discussed it. After decades of confirming Lieberman's important contribution to the song, Fox and Gimbel changed their version of the origin story, to downplay Lieberman's role.
It seemed right then when we did it. Gimbel and Fox directed their lawyers to demand $27,000 from Lieberman to pay expenses, and to demand another $250,000 of her future income. "I saw him at the Troubadour in LA last year.
"But I didn't feel the word "blues" was quite what the effect was.