Wonderful

Back when we had the band in the early eighties and towards the end of our existence at that point, I had a kind of a dirge in A, which we did run through a couple of times but never developed it further. It must have remained dormant in my mind for all those years, because when I started writing the songs for this album I had the start for 'Wonderful', which came to me after listening to David Bowie's 'Rock 'n Roll Suicide', in which he sings  the line 'because you're wonderful'.  I put the two pieces together and added a kind of Spanish guitar line to complete the intro. I then came up with the chords for the rest of the song added some links, which I think real musicians call bridges and there was the song. In the studio we asked Dave to add some piano and that was when the gospel feel came about, so we tried to develop that with the vocals but we couldn't budget for a whole choir so we tried to do the best with the three of us (Wendelynne, Richard and myself). The subject matter is about leaders and messianic type figures, most of them crash and burn in the end - don't they? So all you believers out there - keep the faith.

Hitchcock Moments: The guitar intro is mine, I recorded it as a guide (for a real guitarist) originally but the others thought it sounded good enough to use so we left it in, though I think I rushed it a little bit, being a bit nervous about my inadequacies. I also sang some backing vocals on this track.

Ben Lowrey played guitar on 'Wonderful' as well as 'Girl in Blue', 'Deportation' and 'Oral Contact (fyi)'

Left: Ben implores us to 'Learn from him'.

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Wonderful (Pearce)