I like that you said "and there we go"
So Bohemian Rhapsody, I mean who wouldn't want to write one of the greatest rock
music pop anthems ever? I mean I imagine when Freddie Mercury and Queen brought
in a seven minute single, the producers and then the radio people the
record company must have thought they were crazy but I think it was the most
sort of complicated, beautiful, operatic thing that anyone had ever may be heard
in pop music at that time or maybe ever I think to this day it's obviously...
it's obviously, it continues to move people and it doesn't seem to matter when those
people were born, where those people are from, what language they speak.
That's sort of the magic of an incredible song generation after generation are moved by
it and so, I don't wish that I wrote it so that I could have the money from
writing it or it's just honestly the accolades I would just brag about it all
the time. I would never go down to an airplane or go to a 7-eleven without
telling people that I was the one who wrote Bohemian Rhapsody
The Winner Takes It All was written by well there's at least some of the parts
of the group ABBA and what can we say about ABBA?
I mean I wish I wrote all their songs they just had the greatest sense of
melody, time, space. It's amazing that they they they captured this perfection so
what seemed to be easily when it's not that's an incredibly beautiful song and
it's funny because it's not like it's a slow song it's got a great
kind of groove, it gets into a groove but it's incredibly melancholy and I love
the contradiction between these beautiful bright melodies that
Björn would write and these the lyrics that were incredibly sad I think that
there was something just so incredible about them it's funny I didn't know
really what ABBA was or who they were when I was growing up. I think you know,
maybe I knew my mom and dad listened to them and it was one of those groups where
I knew there was a stigma attached to them or something and the older I got
it was like the more into music I got the more I just respected them and their
abilities and the songs and the production and the harmonies and
everything - the lyrics, everything. And so The Winner Takes It All I think is one of
the greatest songs ever written and of course I'd love to be a part of that
When a Man Loves a Woman, I mean listen it's really romantic, I love the concept
of that sense of unconditional love, I love the concept of you loving someone
so much that... ego flies out the door, that your own sense of self that
you've put them in front of you you've put them ahead of you. You would just
do anything for them and if that included even putting your own life on
the line and sometimes when you love someone so much you risk that you know
you risk... love is expensive. Love has a massive cost and part of that cost is
that when you lose someone that you love the pain is just intolerable and I think
it's just a really beautiful song. It's funny now because as we get
into these the years were in now, it's a little bit dated I think,
you know you could say when a man loves a man, when a woman loves a woman,
We could go a lot of different places here but, listen I wish I could have
written a song like that. I wish I had written that song!
And if somebody wanted to update it and and take it and interpret it in their
own way for who they are and how they feel I would love that too,
but great song
All You Need Is Love is an incredible song which I think may just say it all
with those however many were - "all you need is love" - with those five words
I think pretty much the world revolves around that and I think that's why we're
here I think it's how the universe works. I think...
I think it's maybe the greatest song in my opinion ever written.
There's an incredible melody, beautiful words
it's touching, it's moving, it's inspiring.
It's funny you know you never know where
something great will come and sometimes it comes from these little lone bands
where you know you think "where are they now?"
But I never knew why the Beatles didn't click the way that I thought they would,
especially with a song like that and the members that they had.
If you didn't know, it was written by an actual group called the Beatles,
they're from Germany and...
or Canada I'm not sure which one
but nevertheless, big hit and a big one hit kind of wonder thing.
And I wish I had written it because I would have been happy to be one of the three
Beatles, there were three of them I think.
I'm not a historian but two or three for sure.
Back to Black, Amy Winehouse. Y'know I live my life and a lot of it...
a lot of what's important to me at least musically is authenticity a lot of what
I do boils down to being honest and real and authentic and I think not only
did that song fit the voice, the personality - it was a timestamp
of how she was feeling and what she was living and I think that the
honesty that she captured, the authenticity, the production, Mark
Ronson's production, her vocals make this one of the few songs that I believe will
be a classic for the rest of our lives and that's saying something that's
really saying something when you can do something that allows for no dating,
no timestamp, you know you'd never know if that..
if you came down to earth right now from Mars and you studied music you would have no
clue if that song was a hit in 1950 or 2019.
You wouldn't know and I think there's great magic there and I wish that she
was still with us because I can't imagine what... she was a monster,
she would have just made so much more beautiful music and
I would have loved to listen to it and she'll missed