Creed’s Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti on the ‘Goosebump Moment’ of Writing 2001’s ‘One Last Breath’

Creed (Credit: Chuck Brueckmann) Launched in Tallahassee, Florida in 1994, Creed broke through in a big way with their 1997 debut, My Own Prison , which eventually shifted more than six million units in the U.S. alone. The band’s second album, 1999’s Human Clay , sold nearly twice as many copies. And Creed kept the winning streak going with 2001’s Weathered , which spawned no fewer than six singles, two of which soared into the Billboard Hot 100 As a measure of the Grammy-winning band’s enduring popularity, Creed’s 2004 Greatest Hits went double-platinum and received a vinyl reissue in May. Their success has sustained into the streaming era: Creed’s five most popular songs have a combined one billion (that’s one thousand million) streams just on Spotify. They’ve sold a staggering 54 million albums to date. Creed, 1990s. L-R: Scott Phillips, Scott Stapp, and Mark Tremonti. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) After a decade-long break, Creed’s classic lineup—lead singer Scott Stapp, guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips—is back in action, touring across the country. Stapp believes that Creed appeals to listeners who value a callback to a “simpler, more conservative, more family-values time; I think we’re harkening back to that.” One of the popular singles from Weathered was ”One Last Breath,” a song of searing emotional intensity. More than two decades after its release, Stapp and Tremonti reflect on the song’s creation, resonance, and enduring popularity. Also Read KUČKA Plays to Her Strengths on ‘Can You Hear Me Dreaming?’ Pressure to Keep Going Scott Stapp: I didn’t feel any particular pressure to write a particular kind of song. I don’t think we ever thought that way; we just wrote what we felt. We just got together and created whatever came out, and we put on a record if we liked it. And for me, lyrically, “One Last Breath” fit exactly where I was at the time. I don’t think the pressure was so much about, “We need to write another hit.” The pressure was constantly being put on us to just keep putting out records and keep […]

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