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"The song came about this way. | "The song came about this way. Clive Langer had written the tune specifically for Robert Wyatt and he gave me a tape of the backing track without any vocal other than a very vague melody line. | ||
"We were on tour in Australia and this was at the height of the Falklands War. We were getting these very third-hand reports through the Australian press which I think are world famous for being very sensational. You know, British troops were being napalmed and ships were being blown up every day. It really was alarmingly dramatised. | "We were on tour in Australia and this was at the height of the Falklands War. We were getting these very third-hand reports through the Australian press which I think are world famous for being very sensational. You know, British troops were being napalmed and ships were being blown up every day. It really was alarmingly dramatised. | ||
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"The last line was quite important. I didn't want the song just to stay totally within the bounds of realities and commodities. The first part of the song talks about commodities and the second about realities. I thought that there would also be some sort of aspiration to something a bit better. The idea of the line is that there must be something better to do than ending up in the water for some other purpose than drowning. That's what I currently think. I don't know what crossed Robert's mind when he sang it. | "The last line was quite important. I didn't want the song just to stay totally within the bounds of realities and commodities. The first part of the song talks about commodities and the second about realities. I thought that there would also be some sort of aspiration to something a bit better. The idea of the line is that there must be something better to do than ending up in the water for some other purpose than drowning. That's what I currently think. I don't know what crossed Robert's mind when he sang it. | ||
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[[Ian Birch]] | [[Ian Birch]] talks to Elvis Costello about "[[Shipbuilding]]." | ||
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<br><small>Page scan.</small> | <br><small>Page scan.</small> | ||
<small>Photo by [[David Bailey]].</small><br> | <small>Photo by [[David Bailey]].</small><br> | ||
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<small>Cover and contents page.</small><br> | |||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_Hits Wikipedia: Smash Hits] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_Hits Wikipedia: Smash Hits] | ||
*[ | *[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/sets/72157633135903822/ Flickr: Brian McCloskey][https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/8607774828/in/album-72157633135903822/ {{t}}] | ||
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/albums/72157719109038720 Flickr: Michael Kane][https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/51145922642/ {{t}}] | |||
*[https://worldradiohistory.com/Smash-Hits-UK.htm worldradiohistory.com] | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/smash-hits-26-may-8-june-1983/page/n41/mode/2up archive.org] | |||
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