i want a right answer!!

[marcourriola]

I know the ballad "all by myself" is based on a piano concert by Sergei Rachmaninov but i would like to know
about the PIANO INTERLUDE included in the middle of the song, this piano solo doesn�t belong to Rachmaninov, it doesn't belong to Eric Carmen either.
I heard this piece on the radio many years ago and it's a classical piece, i don't understand why Eric said: "The solo is mine" .
You can hear this interlude between the 2:47 and 5:18 minutes of the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJxdX81ZYuk

[matt1e]

Apparently it does belong to Eric here's a quote
Carmen: "The song started with the solo. It started 4 bars at a time. Eventually, over a period of 2 months, that entire interlude had been written. Then my quest was to put this in the middle of an actual song. Then it was a matter of trying to figure out what kind of song and how could I do it. I was listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto (written in 1901) and I heard the melody which I used for the verse. Then I needed a chorus. I went back and listened to a song that I had written in 1973 called 'Let's Pretend' for the Raspberries. I just took those notes and took it from there. I thought, ''Let's Pretend' was a nice melody.' The song didn't go quite as far as I thought it should have. I'll go back and steal from myself for this."
more here http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4226