“Roll With It” by Steve Winwood

"Roll With It" is the title track of Steve Winwood's 1988 album on Virgin, and it's a full-bore blast of horn-fired rock and soul, Winwood playing piano, Hammond organ, bass and drums himself, with Wayne Jackson on trumpet and trombone, Andrew Love on tenor sax and taking the solo, and Mike Lawler on keyboards. Tom Lord-Alge co-produced, engineered and mixed it.

Winwood wrote it with his longtime partner Will Jennings, but it sounded so much like Junior Walker's "(I'm a) Roadrunner" that BMI later had Holland-Dozier-Holland added as co-writers. It sat at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four straight weeks that summer, did the same on the mainstream rock chart, and earned Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. David Fincher shot the sepia-tinted video in a bar.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.