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The secrets of songwriters - The Guardian
The day the Kinks overtook the Beatles, why the Clash wrote 'Rock the Casbah', when Johnny Marr first drove to Morrissey's house … Daniel Rachel has interviewed many of the nation's best songwriters. Here are some highlights
Excerpt from Johnny Marr segment:
Did you ever write together?
Once, which was "Half a Person": that was incredibly uncanny. The morning we were supposed to do the B-side he said, "What are we going to do?" I picked up the guitar and said, "Maybe it should go like this?' and he hummed the melody whilst I found some chords. It was done in like four minutes. We did it that one time because the tape was rolling in the next room and we hadn't come up with something. It was just a necessity. We'd decided, very unexpectedly for us, impulsively, to do an A-side which was going to be "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby". We wrote and recorded that in 24 hours. That tied us up. I put it down and the band learned it, he took the cassette away and the next morning all the words were written. We were pretty prolific.
The secrets of songwriters - The Guardian
The day the Kinks overtook the Beatles, why the Clash wrote 'Rock the Casbah', when Johnny Marr first drove to Morrissey's house … Daniel Rachel has interviewed many of the nation's best songwriters. Here are some highlights
Excerpt from Johnny Marr segment:
Did you ever write together?
Once, which was "Half a Person": that was incredibly uncanny. The morning we were supposed to do the B-side he said, "What are we going to do?" I picked up the guitar and said, "Maybe it should go like this?' and he hummed the melody whilst I found some chords. It was done in like four minutes. We did it that one time because the tape was rolling in the next room and we hadn't come up with something. It was just a necessity. We'd decided, very unexpectedly for us, impulsively, to do an A-side which was going to be "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby". We wrote and recorded that in 24 hours. That tied us up. I put it down and the band learned it, he took the cassette away and the next morning all the words were written. We were pretty prolific.
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