Came to pay my respect. Just read we have lost the incredibly talented Eric Carmen. Rest in peace

Eric passed away this weekend. May he be in eternal peace.

RIP, Eric. High school wouldn't have been the same without your music.

Don’t be sad he passed. Be glad he lived

I honestly believe that this is one of the best pop rock songs ever written.

This song was HUGE in the summer of 1988, yet you rarely heard it afterwards unlike many 80s hits. It is one of the forgotten hits of the 80s.

Just heard the news. RIP big guy, your music brought joy, happiness, and live to more than you could ever know.

Eric Carmen (August 11, 1949-March 11,2024) You Are Missed Every Day…

RIP Eric Carmen (August 11, 1949 - March 11, 2024), aged 74 You will be remembered as a legend.

RIP Eric Carmen, a piece of my childhood has left with you 🥹

For some reason, I've had this song stuck in my head all day. And then I just saw that he passed away tonight. I'm so sad. But I'm so thankful for the music. Thank you Mr Carmen.

Eric Carmen has made awesome 😎 music 🎶 during the 1980's. This song never gets old. Whoever is still listening 🎧 to the song in 2024 is a legend.

Wouldn't change living in the 80s for a million dollars

Slowly we are loosing all the great talent of 80s Eric Carmen, Eddie Money, Robert Palmer. So sad

How blessed were we to have grown up in the 80’s?

RIP Eric Carmen (1949-2024) Thanks for the music and this great song. We will treasure your memory and talent forever

Melancholic, powerful, straight forward pop rock is what you wanted from Carmen, and he served it up in fine style here. The blend of guitars and keyboards (and that big, seismic drum groove) is really all you need to get lost in the tidal wave of melody he pushes out here. The bittersweet longing for a simpler time builds and builds until that third verse, where the song explodes from the inside out, daring you to remain unmoved. Were you unmoved? Don't lie. You were deeply touched by that gritty voice. He made you "lose control".

Was a gift to be a teenager in the 80s with songs like this hitting the airwaves.

My name is Jennifer... I was 9 when this came out - made sure everyone heard it because he sung my name ❤ RIP Eric 🙏

Thank you, Eric Carmen with your wonderful tunes. RIP and music in Heaven 🕯❤🎶

I feel sorry for anyone that did not have the extreme good fortune to have grown up during the 80s. Thank you God for letting me live when great, timeless music ruled the airwaves!!

Never mind his music, that hair will live forever.

The 80's was and always be the best decade for music

This song STILL blows my mind and gives me goosebumps more than 35 years later. Thank you, Eric Carmen, for this amazing song and so many others. RIP.

Who is still listening to this amazing song in 2023??❤❤

Can we all just take a moment and marvel at the awesomeness of this guys hair in this music video. This is the epitome of the 80's right here. Love Eric, this one and Hungry Eyes are some of the best that the 80's had to offer. Seriously though, only Eric can pull off that hair.

I am saddened to hear Eric Carmen has passed. His song "All by Myself" brings me back to my insecure High School years when I longed for a girlfriend but was too shy to move forward and "Make me lose control" brings me back to the beginning of my first real adult love affair. A week after meeting the woman of my dreams. I had to leave the East Coast to visit my best friend on a long planned trip to Manhattan Beach for a week, but couldn't stop thinking of my new love and ached to return to her. I was driving up Pacific Coast Highway in a baby blue convertible Porsche 944 with the top down heading to Malibu as the sun was setting over the ocean when this song played. The fires on the beach were just being lit. The first chords of this song immediately throws me back in time to when the future was all in front of me and life could not be better. We should all have, at least, that one perfect moment in our lives to hold on to. Thanks to you Eric, one of those moments is owed to you !! Thank you and you will be missed.

RIP Eric Carmen. Thank you for this masterpiece

I was 15 when this song came out. It was on the radio every day during the summer of 1988. That was the best summer of my life. That was 34 years ago. Now we are all close to our 50s and there are friends that I havent seen since then. This song brings me back to that summer.

"Turn the radio up for that sweet sound" I love that line.

Eric Carmen - Cleveland brother - managed to play a part in some of the iconic memory making productions of the 80s. To be remembered for being a fixture of the heyday era of pop music says volumes about his talent and legacy. RIP Eric.

RIP Mr. Carmen. Thank you for your music from the 80's to today.

Nothing compares to the Passion and Power of 80s music... It's still pure magic!!! 🎶💖🎶

Man, I totally forgot about this song, they never play it, not even on the 80s station. Wow, what a gem!!

RIP to the talented 1970s and 1980's singer, Eric Carmen 😂❤😊

Rest in peace, Eric Carmen from a fellow Clevelander. I love The Raspberries but this is the era that I grew up with. This song was on our radio often.

I'm a 62 year old Australian woman. Nothing beats the music of the 60s,70s and 80s. Music this century is shocking to say the best. Young people don't know what their missing

The 80's were the best times ever

RIP ERIC CARMEN 1949-2024 😢

“Make Lose Control” is my favorite song by Eric Carmen… R.I.P., Mr. Carmen… See you in “The Great Heavenly Stadium Above” rocking hard amongst the other legends who have gone before you. ⛅️🏟️🎸🎶☁️ May The Lord comfort your family during this difficult time and be with them until they are reunited with you again. ✝️

I feel so privileged to have grown up in the 80s. UKposts is as close as I can get to a time machine. Music at it’s all time best ❤️❤️🎼🎼

Say Hello to my Dad Eric, he loved this song!

Before he passed, I just knew one of his songs. Now listening to all his music and realizing how great he was. A real talent, a musical genius. RIP :(

As a kid born in 78 thank you for showing me the beauty of music at a young age I couldn’t of asked for a better generation to grow up in , Make me lose control and Hungry eyes were two of the best songs from the 80’s , there was something magical about that era although I don’t believe in magic 😂 Rest in peace, keep the show going up there THANK YOU !!!!

I’m 54 years old. How could I have overlooked this gem for 34 years? Bumped into it watching Dexter and loved it immediately although I only heard 5 seconds. Typical 80’s song. Brings back memories of being young and carefree.

This is one of the most perfectly crafted pop songs ever.

Rest in peace Eric Carmen. Thank you for writing a song with the name Jennifer mentioned in the song. 💜

An era when almost every song had the element of power and love ❤️

Not only is the melody amazing, but this is one of the most complicated arrangements I've ever heard for a pop song. And they got it all just right

This song has some of the most beautiful harmonies I've ever heard.

Chris Kattan is so talented. I thought he was just a comedian. Unreal!!

RIP Eric. Your tunes will forever be in my playlist!

I remember I used to be cutting through traffic on the streets of Brooklyn back in 89 listening to this over and over again on my walkman. I used to feel like I was flying, especially when they did that acapella part with the harmony! Good memories..

I was 11 when this song came out. I still love it to this day. I will never get enough of 80's music, best decade ever!!!

RIP to a musical genius Eric Carmen

Rest in Peace Eric 🕊️ Fabulous Voice so Handsome and Talented and some outstanding gorgeous hair🥹

I am 70 and my son has to play this song full volume..I lose control and just sing my lungs out...Went past a nursing home and I liked the energy this songs gives me, I am not ready for one yet. Thank you Eric for the best song to get my blood pumping.

I also thank God I grew up as a teenager in the 80's, ❤

RIP to the legend that is Eric Carmen. This song is the first I heard in my life from this fantastic singer

RIP Eric Carmen, thanks for all that great songs.

Should've won a Grammy

I can close my eyes when listening to this song and almost feel the hot breeze of carefree summer nights back in the 80's - LOVE IT!!!

RIP Eric Carmen.... this song brings back great memories of the 80s. Thank you sir!

RIP Eric Carmen. This was one of my favorites. Can we talk about the geniusness at 3:13 ? And the acappella at 3:51 … ❤❤

I've never, not rarely, but NEVER heard this wonderful song since its original airplay back in Summer/Fall 1988; why? It's so timeless, it could have been a hit prior, afterward and even today. Plus, it really brings out the incredible, soulful voice of Eric Carmen.

I run a comb through my hair and step out in the street And the city's the color of flame in the midsummer heat, oh yeah Jennifer's got her daddy's car, she's playing "Uptown" on the stereo We go cruisin' so close, the way they did long ago My darlin' Turn the radio up for that sweet sound Hold me close, never let me go Keep this feelin' alive Make me lose control Baby, baby When I look in your eyes, I go crazy Fever's high with the lights down low Take me over the edge Make me lose control We put the top down and park with the moon in the sky And the wind is so hot in our hair, like a fire in July, oh yeah Jennifer's singin', "Stand by Me" And she knows every single word by heart Was love always this good, or could this be just the start? Oh darlin' Turn the radio up for that sweet sound Hold me close, never let me go Keep this feelin' alive Make me lose control Baby, baby When I look in your eyes, I go crazy Fever's high with the lights down low Take me over the edge Make me lose control "Be My Baby" comes on and we're movin' in time And the heat from your touch Makes me feel like I'm losing my mind, oh yeah (And then they played) Back in my arms again (We close our eyes) We start rememberin' when (We start to kiss) And all the feelings return And we just pray that this night never ends Oh, my darlin' Turn the radio up for that sweet sound Hold me close, never let me go Keep this feelin' alive make me lose control Baby When I look in your eyes, I go crazy Fever's high with the lights down low Take me over the edge Make me lose control Baby, baby Turn the radio up for that sweet sound Hold me close, never let me go (Keep) Keep this feelin' alive make me lose control When I look in your eyes, I go crazy Fever's high with the lights down low (So take) Take me over the edge make me lose control Baby, baby Turn the radio up for that sweet sound Hold me close, never let me go Keep this feelin' alive Make me lose control

Where have the days gone..😢

Rest in peace Eric. This was one of my first favorite songs and I still love this song. It really did make me lose control and cry many times. Thanks for creating it.

Such a great song. It deserves tons of airplay.

Back in 1988, when this song was brand new & I was still in my teens, me & a group of other teens were on a field trip in a school bus. They actually had a radio, on the bus, that was up by the bus driver & they would play pop music stations but always had the volume kinda low. But when this song came on, we all started singing the chorus "Turn the radio up! For that SWEET sound!" to the old lady driving the bus. She kept looking in her rear view mirror at us & shaking her head. But after a couple of min of hearing our amazing (or awful) vocals, she finally capitulated & turned the radio up. We all started cheering after that. Haha.

Going to miss this man. He was one of the less recognized masters of songwriting. Thanks for the inspiration and the example, Eric.

Eric Carmen what a singer 80’s music is the best ❤

very underrated artist/songwriter

The fact that this still plays on the radio just goes to show how much better music from the 80s is compared to the rubbish of today!

The man passes on. But the music last forever. Rest in Peace and we remember.

Hungry Eyes and Make Me Lose Control, two huge 1988 hit singles and now eternal classics by the one and only Eric Carmen. RIP ❤️🎶

This song never gets old!

Perfect 80's tune. Oh the memories...

Farewell Eric, thank you for the music.

Music is the only time machine we'll ever have

Someone invent a damn time machine already! I want to go back to the 80s

sad, we can never go back to these times, only in our memories. This song has balls. Summer of 88' baby!!!!!!

I loved him so much. The soundtrack of my youth and first love. Rest in peace, Eric. ♥

Instant flashback to my junior year of high school, & an incredible time to be young & alive. RIP Eric. Thank you for the music & the memories.

This never grows old !! Who is listening in 2020 ?

No contest ever. The 1980s had the best songs, best videos, best outfits and best hair-dos!

I have jammed to his music my whole life. I'm 51 years old. Thanks Eric. Wow , unbelievable songs

I must have listened to this song 1000 times when it came out. RIP Eric

80s music had feeling and depth. Sadly, music today seems to have lost that.

1988 was a great year.

The production of this is simply fabulous, a big booming song, I love it.

Rest in Peace Eric! My favorite song from him. Love the connection between that Motown sound early on building up to powerful drums and the chorus.

Love the a capella part near the end.

I miss the 80s. Best times, great music. 80s was all about music and love....not like today.

REST IN PEACE ERIC CARMEN ! THANK YOU FOR MY CHILDHOOD OF HEARING YOUR MUSIC. EVEN AS AN ADULT WE'RE STILL 80'S KIDS. " MAKE ME LOOSE CONTROL" WAS ONE OF THE GREATS TO LISTEN TO EVEN NOW. BE AT PEACE WITH GOD !

This was my buddy and my song for the end of the work week ... respect brother.

I wish I had half the confidence of this dudes hair

i get chills listening to this! i miss the 80s!

RIP Eric - you really made music that touched people all around the globe. Posted comment March 11, 2024 - 7:03PM EST

Those of us who know good music will never stop listening to it! !