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DE: Well Billy Bremner, the guitarist does a couple of numbers and we do a few Nick Lowe songs and one Nick and I wrote together. There's no old chestnuts in it like "Blue Suede Shoes" or "Hound Dog" — no revivals. | DE: Well Billy Bremner, the guitarist does a couple of numbers and we do a few Nick Lowe songs and one Nick and I wrote together. There's no old chestnuts in it like "Blue Suede Shoes" or "Hound Dog" — no revivals. | ||
TP: ''But lots of rock 'n | TP: ''But lots of rock 'n roll… | ||
DE: Oh yeah. Smelly rock 'n' roll. It stinks. | DE: Oh yeah. Smelly rock 'n' roll. It stinks. | ||
TP: ''Was the album a conscious attempt to touch on all different 'fifties rock 'n' roll styles? A ballad, a Chuck Berry-ish | TP: ''Was the album a conscious attempt to touch on all different 'fifties rock 'n' roll styles? A ballad, a Chuck Berry-ish number… | ||
DE: It was a conscious effort to make it one type of music as opposed to my other two albums where it was like a various artists compilation. It didn't sound like the same artist sometimes. I can't remember specifically, but it'd go from one track to another and sound like someone else. | DE: It was a conscious effort to make it one type of music as opposed to my other two albums where it was like a various artists compilation. It didn't sound like the same artist sometimes. I can't remember specifically, but it'd go from one track to another and sound like someone else. | ||
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TP: ''Do you write with him often? | TP: ''Do you write with him often? | ||
DE: Well, I'd never written a song before. I was convinced I couldn't write songs, because of a few abortive attempts and Love Sculpture B-sides which were all miserable. Then I moved to London, which was a great idea because I realized I'd been completely out of touch. I'd been in Wales for five years, taken too many quaaludes and too much speed and the only musicians I met were people who used to come down to the studio. Seeing bands play, getting into what's going on and watching Nick write songs spurred me on. He used to come up to my flat and write and I'd say, "Why don't you try this chord here." He admitted later that he was thinking, "Who's this guy telling me how to write my songs?" Then he agreed that some of the times it worked out. That's how "Little Darling" came about and "Here Comes the Weekend." With "Little Darling" he did all the lyrics and I just changed the chords and tune about and arranged it. It was just two verses and a middle eight he dreamed up and strummed out to me. I had a go at it and he said, "Well, you've completely changed it, you may as well have half of it." All of a sudden I felt like a songwriter. My ego was starting to increase; I had lift-off, right? Then one night we were in the Nashville watching Graham Parker and I asked Nick if he had any songs and he said, "There hasn't been a song about the weekend since Eddie Cochran [obviously unaware of the Dictators' epic — ed. ], let's do one. Next thing I knew we were scribbling away on a cigarette packet in the dressing room. After about 10 minutes we had it done. So now I thought, "What a fucking good | DE: Well, I'd never written a song before. I was convinced I couldn't write songs, because of a few abortive attempts and Love Sculpture B-sides which were all miserable. Then I moved to London, which was a great idea because I realized I'd been completely out of touch. I'd been in Wales for five years, taken too many quaaludes and too much speed and the only musicians I met were people who used to come down to the studio. Seeing bands play, getting into what's going on and watching Nick write songs spurred me on. He used to come up to my flat and write and I'd say, "Why don't you try this chord here." He admitted later that he was thinking, "Who's this guy telling me how to write my songs?" Then he agreed that some of the times it worked out. That's how "Little Darling" came about and "Here Comes the Weekend." With "Little Darling" he did all the lyrics and I just changed the chords and tune about and arranged it. It was just two verses and a middle eight he dreamed up and strummed out to me. I had a go at it and he said, "Well, you've completely changed it, you may as well have half of it." All of a sudden I felt like a songwriter. My ego was starting to increase; I had lift-off, right? Then one night we were in the Nashville watching Graham Parker and I asked Nick if he had any songs and he said, "There hasn't been a song about the weekend since Eddie Cochran [obviously unaware of the Dictators' epic — ed. ], let's do one. Next thing I knew we were scribbling away on a cigarette packet in the dressing room. After about 10 minutes we had it done. So now I thought, "What a fucking good song… and I contributed over half." Well, my ego was being fed even more. By now I was fired and ready to go. One night at the pub I told Nick this great idea I had for a country and western song based on a line I got from a Bob Hope movie. Someone wanted some money from Bob in the film and he said, "My suits are worn out, but my pockets are brand new." Nick looked at me and didn't know what I was talking about, he later admitted. He really thought I was onto a turkey. So I just carried on and did the whole song myself. | ||
TP: ''So now you're a songwriter. | TP: ''So now you're a songwriter. | ||
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