Next to the drawing - I'm not really even trying to write a song - I had written a letter and this character who had become Mr. Fantasy.
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I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?Jim Capaldi
We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.
Jim Capaldi
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
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I always felt from a very early age that whatever one's role in life is, we all have our own particular style, our own particular character.
Jim Capaldi
Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
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