| One Step Closer to You | |
| Cover: | Gavin Christopher - One Step Closer To You.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Gavin Christopher |
| Album: | One Step Closer |
| Released: | 1986 |
| Genre: | Dance-pop[1] |
| Length: | 5:06 (album version) 4:27 (single version) |
| Label: | EMI Manhattan |
| Producer: | Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers, Gavin Christopher |
| Next Title: | Back in Your Arms |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
"One Step Closer to You" is a 1986 hit written by the then-budding songwriting/production team of Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers, along with singer/musician – and later noted soundtrack songwriter – Jeff Pescetto and former Linx frontman David Grant. The song became the only Top 40 Pop hit for noted R&B/Hip hop singer-songwriter/producer Gavin Christopher, peaking at #22.
The song first appeared (titled simply "One Step Closer") as an album track on the self-titled debut album from singer Marilyn Martin, released in early 1986.[2] Later in 1986, Christopher released his own version of the song.
Christopher's version soon cracked the top-ten on the Dance charts and the top 25 on both the Pop (#22) and R&B charts (#25).[3] It was the biggest hit of his career.
The basic rhythm structure, bass-line, and tempo of Christopher's version bear a striking similarity to that of Michael Jackson's hit, "The Way You Make Me Feel" from his Bad album, which was released the following year.