So what's with not wanting to be compared to, say, Barry Manilow?
"We're different," Hitchcock says, bristling. "I don't think you can listen to an Air Supply song and a Barry Manilow song and go, 'Yeah, they're similar.' We both have very individual styles, certainly as songwriters and as performers. I guess the great comparison is that he's a superstar, so I'll take that comparison."
Perhaps it's also because he's seen as campy?
"Well, he certainly plays love songs, and he may be campy. We play love songs, but we're certainly not campy."
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