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Fact #82320

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Short story:

Traffic release their debut single, Paper Sun, in the UK on Island Records.

Full article:

Jim Capaldi (Traffic) : I got the title from a newspaper in a boarding house in Newcastle. I was half-asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3.30 in the morning. I woke up Steve with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. (Capaldi's obituary in The Independent)

Jim Capaldi : That sitar on Paper Sun! I remember at the cottage saying (to Dave Mason) 'Stop playing that bloody sitar and come and have your tea!' But he'd already left by the time we went to America, we only ever toured as a trio. America only ever knew Traffic as a trio. (interview with Patrick Humphries, Record Hunter, June, 1994)

Paul Weller : I would have been nine when I heard Traffic through the first singles, Paper Sun, Hole In My Shoe, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, No Face, No Name. No Number, all the early stuff. I came in at the pop end of it all. I just loved those records, I still do.

They're real magical. Paper Sun is probably my all-time favourite Traffic song. It's such a brilliant melody and the words are great. All that stuff is fantastic, the psychedelic pop thing, whatever you want to call it, but, ultimately, their music encompassed everything. They had all different styles all mixed into one.
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