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Cat Stevens issue was settled;
Similarities between the two tracks were highlighted when BBC Radio 2 presenter Janice Long played the two songs back to back.
Flaming Lips frontman, Wayne Coyne had admitted recently, "It actually sounds like a Cat Stevens song called 'Father and Son.' Some guys, like Boyzone, or a Boyzone band, had a hit with that. That song was not really a hit in America."
He added, "I didn't really know the song as well, but I do see now that it definitely has got some resemblance with the Cat Stevens' song. It feels like a sort of re-edition of the sort of story-telling that he did."
Ask him about death and its relation to his work; there are so many lyrical themes surrounding death in the Flaming Lips canon.
Ask him if he's ever going to fucking complete Christmas on Mars.
Ask him how he thinks the Lips have changed over the years, and what it feels like to be so critically feted after all this time.
Ask him about drug use; how does he feel about it? Good, bad, up to the individual? Has it helped or hindered his band (inspiration through abuse weighed against the near-loss of a drummer through an OD)
Ask him about the Golden Path, the new Chemical Brothers collaboration.
Ask him how he stays so bloody happy all the time.
Ask him if he remembers my mate pestering him for chocolate when he played Leicester with Mercury Rev about four years ago. Heh. |
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