Steve Winwood

August 1986: Steve Winwood Soars to No. 1 with "Higher Love"

Think about it. That's exactly what Steve Winwood did after the former Traffic singer's third solo LP, 1982's Talking Back to the Night, stalled commercially on the charts. 

Winwood was so good at what he did that he had produced the album himself and played all the instruments contributing to the album's blue-eyed R&B inflections, including the piano, organ, synthesizers, guitar, bass and drums.