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Originally Posted by rocknation
Presumably it was before he hooked up with Jon in the early 80's, if only because there aren't any musical or lyrical differences between the Intruder and BJ versions. Which would mean that Jon didn't write or compose it at all, just got half credit from Karak when he got his record deal.
Well, it turns out that Karak is still very much alive and kicking, complete with a web site containing New York and Nashville contact info and a couple of Soundcloud MP3s -- including Runaway!
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Similar to a discussion on here about Richie's writing contributions, just because Jon's name is always first on the song writers list doesn't mean he contributed the most, or sometimes even anything to the song aside from "being in the room" (amd even that if often debatable, as in 'Runaway'). A lot of songs like A Teardrop To The Sea, and probably a bunch of the other Falcon co-writes and almost certainly many of the Richie co-writes more than likely had little to do with Jon, from a songwriting point of view. And we've always known that Desmond Child was the main writer on a lot of those songs...