In Episode 324 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores how outside songwriters like Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, and Diane Warren sometimes elevated bands such as Kiss, Aerosmith, and the Scorpions, showing that even rock purists can be happily fooled when the collaboration works.

1. Kiss – “Heaven’s on Fire”
2. Aerosmith – “Heart’s Done Time”
3. Scorpions – “Don’t Believe Her”
4. Ratt – “Shame Shame Shame”
5. Ozzy Osbourne – “That I Never Had”

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