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Released on Mercury Records, also Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi), Space Oddity (David Bowie) and You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
Written by David Walter Foster, also Tell Him (Céline Dion), It’s the Falling in Love (Michael Jackson) and 抱いて… (松田聖子)
Part of Simply... Dusty, also Morning Please Don’t Come
Written by Eric Mercury, also You Are My Heaven (Roberta Flack), Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love) (Roberta Flack) and Sweetie Pie (Dionne Warwick)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
David Walter Foster wrote 162 songs on fono
David Walter Foster’s most frequent co-writer is Jay Graydon (17 songs together)
David Walter Foster first appears on fono in 1977, 23 years before this song
Eric Mercury first appears on fono in 1979, 21 years before this song
Credits
All 5 credits
- Written by
- David Walter Foster, Donny Gerrard and Eric Mercury
- Part of
- Simply... Dusty
- Released on
- Mercury Records
- Written by
- David Walter Foster, Donny Gerrard and Eric Mercury
- Part of
- Simply... Dusty
- Released on
- Mercury Records
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: David Walter Foster
Same writer: Eric Mercury
Same label: Mercury Records
Same release: Simply... Dusty
Same writer: David Walter Foster
Same writer: Eric Mercury
Same label: Mercury Records
Same writer: David Walter Foster
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz Closet Man was written by David Walter Foster
Closet Man was written by David Walter Foster
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz Closet Man was written by Donny Gerrard
3MusicBrainz Closet Man was written by Eric Mercury
4MusicBrainz Closet Man is part of the release Simply... Dusty
Closet Man is part of the release Simply... Dusty
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz Mercury Records is the label of the song Closet Man
Mercury Records is the label of the song Closet Man
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz Closet Man was released on 2000