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My White Album

6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008

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Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Paul’s picaresque, big for Marmalade and “borrowed” by Happy Mondays. La-la how the life goes on!

Shaun Ryder: “I was born in 1962, and when you’re a 6, 7 year old and you’ve got Lieutenant Pigeon piano and you’re running about with your spliff and your massive mushrooms it sounded pretty good on the market. It sounded like Pendlebury market in Salford – the vibe, the atmosphere, everything. And Molly Jones is outside the pub door at ten past ten waiting for them to open at half past, just watching the men. It just reminded me of me mam and dad.

“At 6 years old I didn’t know whether it had a ska quality or a Dean Martin underpants quality but I was banging on paint tins and I’d been doing that since I was old enough to put on a woman’s dress and hat which was out of the playbox at the fuckin’ nursery. I thought the lyric was “Desmond takes a trolley to the durex store” till I was about 12!

“It’s so descriptive. You can have the imagination of a fuckin’ brick and still see pictures in your head. You can smell the streets! People go on about Sgt. Pepper, and it’s brilliant and everything, but it’s all going along the same way, on the same train on the same track on the same railway line. The White Album is off on tramlines, fuckin’ buses and bicycles, and planes and saddling up sheepdogs and pigs. It makes you want to do something as diverse yourself, it’s incredible. I mean they probably had to put a big fuck off chain round the studio so they couldn’t get out!

“Did I rip this for Desmond [track on Happy Mondays’ debut album, withdrawn after complaint from Apple]? Jesus, no wonder we got sussed on that one if we called it Desmond. On Lazyitis [Bummed album track strongly reminiscent of Ticket To Ride] we eventually had to give the credits to David Essex, Sly Stone, Lennon and McCartney, and the fuckin’ Wombles, I think!”

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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/07/2008

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