Fact #171688
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Short story:
Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout writes the song When Love Breaks Down at his home in Consett, County Durham, England, UK, Europe.
Full article:
Paddy McAloon : I was in our front room at home after I'd come back from tour last year. It sounds a bit exact but I think I wrote it on June 10th or, anyway, before June 16th. It was a Saturday night and I wrote it - a typical Sprout clever-dick trick so I probably shouldn't be telling you this - with the guitar on my knee and the synthesiser in front of me at the same time.
I was trying to break my ways of writing things. Always before it was on the guitar, tapping my feet. This was simple like an old hymn or folk tune.
It all came pretty quickly in one night. I got the words simultaneously. You often get a little snatch of things, a phrase that fits - I think it's a subconscious thing really, because I don't sit around thinking 'I want to write a song about this.' Sometimes I'll get a title which gives me a place to start but with When Love Breaks Down the title was last of all and i hated it because it was so obvious. I wanted to call it Old Confetti but it would have been too difficult, there was no point.
(Source : interview with Chris Heath in Jamming, Jan 1986)
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I was trying to break my ways of writing things. Always before it was on the guitar, tapping my feet. This was simple like an old hymn or folk tune.
It all came pretty quickly in one night. I got the words simultaneously. You often get a little snatch of things, a phrase that fits - I think it's a subconscious thing really, because I don't sit around thinking 'I want to write a song about this.' Sometimes I'll get a title which gives me a place to start but with When Love Breaks Down the title was last of all and i hated it because it was so obvious. I wanted to call it Old Confetti but it would have been too difficult, there was no point.
(Source : interview with Chris Heath in Jamming, Jan 1986)