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 fashionable single “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” … ‘trigger she says the inspiration from the track 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 night time (someday within the mid-’90s) not lengthy after they’d first met/began hooking up.

She says they have been watching one another, when JB stated … “I don’t want to fall asleep.” She requested why and he replied, “‘Cause I’ll miss you.'” Barb provides … “What a beautiful, poetic thing to say. And it captured a moment of complete bliss… physical, emotional, spiritual.”

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 track garnered, Barbra writes … “It was so gratifying to see so many people responding to Jim’s words. Well, no wonder… so did I!”