Track-Blaster wants me to put his full name in, but Ricardo Ray was mostly known as Richie. He provides the killer piano chops on this cut. Classical heads will recognize a quote from Chopin's Revolutionary Etude (Op. 10, No. 12)-- Richie started out as a classical pianist.
Deeper analysis of the lyrics than we did on the air-- this is more of a "you don't get to wear the crown for this particular woman" kind of a "you won't get the crown" phrase. It's definitely sung to The Other Man...