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Ghetto Child by The Detroit Spinners enters the UK Popular Singles Chart, where it will peak at No7 during a ten-week run on the chart. The musical feel and structure of this song will inspire Elvis Costello to write his second single, Alison, in 1977.
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Elvis Costello : I picked up a guitar one day and it (Alison) came out. It is very hard to remember how songs came out. I had in mind The Detroit Spinners' Ghetto Child, which doesn't have anything to do with the song lyrically, but that was the song I modelled it on musically. I often model a song on something I like and then it comes out all different. Some of my most original songs have been when I was trying to copy somebody and got it wrong.
(Source : interview with Spencer Leigh, BBC Merseyside,)
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(Source : interview with Spencer Leigh, BBC Merseyside,)