Fra Lippo Lippi vocalist shares valuable thoughts on melody-making

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Per Sorensen of Fra Lippo Lippi (Publicity photo from Ovation Productions)"The bridge is the most important part of a song, I think. If you know how to write a bridge, you will stand out as a composer."

There goes an intriguing assessment from a tunesmith that has scored lots of hit melodies, a proven hit maker that saved what could have been just another obscure 80s group coming up with weird stuff.
It was his inclination to piano-based melody runs that propelled his group to greater heights upon the release of their second album in 1983. The man in question is Per Sorensen, the lead voice and melody-maker of the duo Fra Lippo Lippi.
Bridging The Gap
With his erstwhile collaborator Rune Kristoffersen as lyricist, Sorensen wrote the melodies for enduring songs such as "Beauty and Madness", "Everytime I See You", "Stitches and Burns", "Light and Shade," "Some People, and "Angel." Obviously this is a classic line-up that makes his idea about a song's bridge as being the most vital to a composition credibly worth-taking.
In an interview with this writer, he