Liam sternberg biography
Liam Sternberg (born July 28, ) is an American songwriter and producer who wrote the Bangles hit "Walk Like an Egyptian"..
Walk Like an Egyptian
1986 single by The Bangles
"Walk Like an Egyptian" is a song by the American band the Bangles.
Liam Sternberg is an American songwriter and producer who wrote the Bangles hit "Walk Like an Egyptian".
It was released in September 1986 as the third single from the band's second studio album, Different Light (1986). It was the band's first number-one single, being certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was ranked Billboard's number-one song of 1987.
Composition
Liam Sternberg said he was inspired to create the song while on a ferry crossing the English Channel. When the vessel hit choppy water, passengers stepped carefully and moved their arms awkwardly while struggling to maintain their balance, and that reminded Sternberg of the depiction of human figures in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings.
He wrote the words "Walk like an Egyptian" in a notebook. Later, Sternberg looked back in the notebook and, composing the melody with a guitar, he put together an up-tempo song with lyrics about Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Ni