We wanted to show people, absolutely and as a matter of fact, where we came from. We wanted to put to bed the idea that we were weaned on Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Those were the bands our older brothers listened to. Our true love was always the three-minute pop song.
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Yep, big rich twatty rock stars Compared to some rappers who've been 'on the scene' 15 minutes, we're minnows but I won't be back in the factory any time soon As for the music, it's ALWAYS been the focal point. We were never into it for the money. We wouldn't have spent three years recording a very expensive record, 'Hysteria' , if we were When I saw Marc Bolan and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' I didn't shout, 'Wow I want to be him for the money.' It was for the glory of it and a way out of dreary old day job land. That wasn't for me, the music gave me a motivation.
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Well, it wasn't a conscious decision to do that, it just worked out that Phil Collen , guitar was hanging out in Los Angeles with Swedish producersongwriter Andreas Carlsson , you know, just coffee, bite to eat, shootin' the shit, that sorta thing, when Andreas said, 'We should write a song together.' Something we all say from time to time but very rarely do. Anyway, it didn't happen, but Andreas did call us about six months later and told us he had a song, 'Unbelievable' , that he thought sounded like us So, long story short, he sent a copy over, we played it, liked it, recorded it
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When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.
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