Barbra Streisand Says James Brolin’s Pillow Talk Inspired Aerosmith Song

Barbra Streisand‘s life did not simply encourage her hits — it apparently led to others reaping the advantages of chart success … together with Aerosmith, which rode the coattails of her pillow discuss.

In keeping with Barb’s new memoir, ‘My Identify is Barbra,’ Steven Tyler and co. have her to thank for his or her massively standard single “I Do not Need to Miss a Factor” … ‘trigger she says the inspiration from the tune truly got here from one thing her husband as soon as advised her in mattress.

The best way BS tells it … she and her then-BF James Brolin have been laying subsequent to one another one evening (someday within the mid-’90s) not lengthy after they’d first met/began hooking up.

She says they have been observing one another, when JB mentioned … “I do not wish to go to sleep.” She requested why and he replied, “‘Trigger I am going to miss you.'” Barb provides … “What an exquisite, poetic factor to say. And it captured a second of full bliss… bodily, emotional, non secular.”

A few yr after that, in 1997, Barbra says she was doing an interview with Barbara Walters on “20/20,” throughout which she recounted that candy second … one thing Diane Warren was additionally watching from house when this episode aired, so claims Barbra.

One factor led to a different, and DW finally wrote Aerosmith’s first #1 hit in ’98 … which went on for use in “Armageddon” and be nominated for an Oscar that yr too.

After seeing how a lot success the tune garnered, Barbra writes … “It was so gratifying to see so many individuals responding to Jim’s phrases. Properly, no surprise… so did I!”