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forty years ago lovers like oxygen was
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released January 1978 the interesting
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thing is that against a tide of
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punk-rock attract like lovers that
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oxygen came through a seven minute song
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and was played everywhere in the world
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charted everywhere in the world
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it puts sweet back on the map it was a
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fantastic moment with all that never
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mind the bollocks and various other
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bands coming through it was a
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magnificent effort all round but it just
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showed you that there was still some
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closet sweet fans somewhere who loved it
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well I got on stage with spinal tap on
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my 60th birthday in 2009 David st.
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Hubbins that's Mike McKean actually took
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me on one side and he said at the time
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he was moonlighting in a I think he said
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it was a like a an artist relations
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office or something like that and he
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said in my lunch hour I went out and
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bought it I had to find it and buy it it
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struck a chord and it puts week back on
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the map but it started out maybe two or
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three years before that in a slightly
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different way
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this is actually my home demo on one
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inch tape and it's track recording that
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I put together in the Christmas time
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maybe November December of 77
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Trevor Griffin who wrote the song with
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me had some really interesting piano
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pieces
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he was like putting there like a rock
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symphony together and the three main
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paths that I heard and went that's
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fantastic that's good that's good was
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the intro of the day and the chorus with
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the Supertramp double arpeggio
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and as soon as I put my guitar to that
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playing playing the guitar riff well it
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became you know something symphonic and
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just out of this world
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spring forward a couple of years having
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had this sitting around in my head I
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suddenly came across some lyrics that
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I'd written down
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probably back in 76 something like that
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about love is like oxygen
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you know you get too much you get too
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high it just fitted we were working with
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an arranger called Jeff Wesley who was a
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fantastic pianist with his you know rap
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manonoff style piano and for me to put
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some Julian bream John Williams style
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classical gut strum guitar with his
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piano work was just fantastic
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we were in Kingsway recorders with Louie
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we've been abroad we've been in the
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Chateau terrible in Paris and somebody
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kept saying to us you know something
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it's that old ANR thing I haven't quite
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heard the one yet the single the the
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track which obviously you know as a
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producer and you know songwriter you
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start to worry about what you're doing
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and this particular track was never in
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my eyes gonna be like a commercial
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venture I just happen to get Trevor and
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I to plate to somebody I think it was
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our manager they said is there anything
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else as of what Trevor and I've been
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working on this and they they all just
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looked at me and went why have you been
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hiding this it kind of all came together
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in the studio really quickly Jeff
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Wesley's of ranging head came on I think
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we laid it down virtually second take
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Jeff Wesley decided to use his nine-foot
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Steinway from his house in bounds and on
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a Sunday the Heathrow flight path of
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planes coming in to land would come
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through Barnes so every 10 minutes
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they'd have to be a stop in the
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recording but we soldiered on and he
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late you know a fantastic piano part
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down
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it hadn't really been done it in in
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quite a while where you have sections
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like this
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I know Queen have done something similar
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with Bohemian Rhapsody but here we are
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it's the March of punk rock and here we
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are recording a song like this I have to
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say if anybody has said to me your next
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single will be a slightly pompous
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symphonic rock song I would have laughed
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but here we are 40 years on it's still
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probably the second biggest seller
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worldwide after Fox on the run
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I was looking at the the tracklisting on
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the box and it says backtrack on the
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first two tracks that means that when I
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went back to my home studio I would have
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used the track that was laid down by the
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band so I then laid all my vocals and
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any guitar parts and things like that so
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the track that the band had recorded in
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the week when we assembled the beginning
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of the following week there was a
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silence in the control room and I think
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Mick Tucker turned round and went well
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that's it then
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release that and that was the biggest
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compliment ever by that time I was sold
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you know I realized that we had
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something that was quite um quite
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stupendous quite different but you try
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writing another one
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you
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