| Neil
Our version of this is basically just the demo we made before recording
it with Us Minnelli, which we released much later on the b-side of the 'Jealousy'
single. This disco mix is the longer of the two versions. This was done
in our ZZ Top opened, putting electric guitar samples on everything.
The show Forms, by Stephen Sondheim, had been on in London, which
is where this song comes from. In the show, two girls who used to be showgirls
get married, and they both come back to New York for the party for the
demolition of the theatre they used to work in. One woman would rather
have married the other husband, and in this song she describes how she
lives in the Midwest and every day she thinks about the man she loves.
When I saw the show I thought this song could be a hit record. It's a
very beautiful song, though we obviously did it in a less sensitive way.
We
went into RAK demo studio to do this version as an experiment to see if
it would work for Liza, and chris came up with the riff that sounds a
little bit like 'Physical'. Liza hated the screaming bit, which was taken
from a sample CD, and refused to have it on her version. On reflection
I think she was right, because it's a bit gimmicky. The same day as we
recorded this, we recorded the demo for 'Nothing has been proved'.
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