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Choose your subscription. Trial Try full digital access and see why over 1 million readers subscribe to the FT. For 4 weeks receive unlimited Premium digital access to the FT's trusted, award-winning business news. They were that good! And that was it — done. Then on the Sunday night we were all invited back and listened to it in the studio: me and Graeme with our girlfriends, the rest of the group, and maybe a roadie.
There were some big Tannoy speakers that they had in studio. It was lovely. When it first came out it was to demonstrate the Deramic Sound System.
In an era when AM radio ruled the airwaves, the original version of the song was chopped to just over three minutes to meet the quasi-mandatory time constraints. A slightly longer edit initially peaked at Number 19 on the English charts, but then it never truly died away. He was a lovely elderly gentleman and would come along and get a bit [of a] contact high from my joints.
He particularly liked it. Maybe they thought people had very short attention spans. Pinder: The Sixties and Seventies were very unique for the artist as well as for the listener. I think the fans in those days were just as creatively turned on by the evolution of our music and our message as we were turned on by creating it. But record companies really did not have much creative capacity.
Too profit-driven at the expense of creativity. Hayward: We were so fortunate with the birth of FM radio in America. There used to be things called regional breakouts.
Instead of the big conglomerate radio stations like now, there were these FM guys and they had their own playlists. DJs were stars in those days and they prided themselves on discovering new talent. We had a regional breakout in Seattle. I think after the breakout started happening, there was a decision to re-promote it in other areas. It spread from Seattle down to San Francisco and down to L. It was going great everywhere, slowly going up the charts again until in the end it got to Number Two.
But it sold a hell of a lot of records because it took so long to get up there. There was no promotion involved at all. Hayward: The best version, by far, is by Bettye LaVette. She wrote to me after she recorded it and I was so touched. It brought me to tears.
Her version is, I think, probably better than ours, with the emotion she puts behind it. And the players she has on it are so good. Each one of our songs is a short, concise song, in a way, and not all long guitar solos. Now, later in life, I get the pleasure of watching the audience.
Some of them are mouthing the words; some of them are snuggling with each other. It only works if you do it from the heart. I can only do it that one way. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu.
Then it started to really take off in France. The single had already peaked at No. The only time the orchestra comes in on Days Of Future Passed is halfway through the last verse of Nights.
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