I don't think there's enough material that Richie has written alone to compare his songwriting skills to Jon's. With Jon we have the bulk of his solo CDs, half of the Keep the Faith CD, and songs from each band CD that he wrote solo. With Richie, there are three songs in the entire catalogue that he wrote solo. So, I don' t believe there's enough of a sample to compare the two as songwriters. Who knows how much of Richie's solo CDs are the contribution of Dave Bryan or Richie Supa or Desmond Child etc.

Now if you want to compare Jon and Richie as a team to another team of songwriters, there are plenty of songs to judge them by. If you want to compare Jon to another solo songwriter, there's enough material to do so. But it's impossible to judge Richie as a songwriter because there isn't enough released material he wrote alone.

Becky