THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS
RICHARD MARX: “I DIDN’T MURDER MARY!”
Because Marx featured so centrally in its video, doing an accomplished job of inserting the listener into the drama of his ‘small Nebraska town’, that to this day he still encounters fans who presume Hazard to be autobiographical.
“There are people who really think I actually murdered a girl and ended up writing a song about it, I swear that to be true,” he says. “When they say that, I just stare at them.”
More than a decade ago, as a precursor to performing the song concerned live, Richard Marx astonished a sold-out audience at his London’s Royal Albert Hall show by describing the 1992 worldwide chart-topperas “the dumbest, lamest thing” that he’d ever written. He then went on to add: “The only reason I recorded it was to prove that my now ex-wife – who along with many of my friends believed it would be a smash – was wrong.”
