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Ben Rogerson

“I told Céline that if she recorded the Titanic song, it would ruin her career. I didn't like the song - I still don't. So I didn't produce it. I turned it down”: Music legend David Foster says that he passed on producing Céline Dion's biggest hit

UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01: Photo of Celine DION (Photo by Phil Dent/Redferns).

The last 50 years of pop music would have sounded very different without the involvement of David Foster, the musician, producer, composer and arranger who’s worked with the likes of Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson.

And then, of course, there’s Céline Dion, who he met when she was still a teenager. He would go on to work on many of her biggest hits - The Power of Love, All By Myself and Because You Loved Me, to name but three - but, speaking to the And The Writer Is… podcast, he says that he turned down the chance to produce what would become her signature song.

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