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The Making Of The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven' [Highlight From Episode 318] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Davis is the author of The Cure, Every Album,
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  Speaker 1: Every Song, riding high in the success of the Head
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  Speaker 1: on the Door, which reached number seven in the UK
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine in the US, along with the singles collections
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  Speaker 1: Standing on a Beach, which you mentioned the Cure, you write,
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  Speaker 1: were in good spirits when they convened to work on
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  Speaker 1: the next album in nineteen eighty six, and it resulted
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  Speaker 1: in the album kiss Me, Kissed Me, Kissed Me, which
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  Speaker 1: had a working title of one Million Virgins I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: That has the singles why Can't I Be You, Catch Hot,
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  Speaker 1: Hot Hot, and just Like Heaven, which is, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: really a perfect pop rock song. I mean it's absolute perfection.
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  Speaker 1: Share what you write in the book about the writing
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  Speaker 1: of the songs.
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  Speaker 2: The lyrics. Yes, this is about luck A hollow eye
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  Speaker 2: on beachy Head that you had with Mary, his potter
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  Speaker 2: of many years. They got together when they were fifteen
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  Speaker 2: years old.
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  Speaker 1: Still together, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do together after all these years. It's a real real
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  Speaker 2: romance story, you know, kind of relationship goals in a way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my partner and I are very affected by that.
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  Speaker 2: I wish that we'd met when when they Zoe could
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  Speaker 2: be together for that amount of time. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: she's always been his news, and he's always always been
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  Speaker 2: his rock and held them together when he was in
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  Speaker 2: danger of falling apart. It must be strange to be
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  Speaker 2: a person like that and just know how many love
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  Speaker 2: songs have been written about you were just how many
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  Speaker 2: songs in general. I mean, I can't think of anyone
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  Speaker 2: else that have more songs written about her, apart from
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  Speaker 2: maybe historical figures or someone like Marilyn Monroe where a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people didn't know are probably written songs about her.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean to know that there are like dozens
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  Speaker 2: or if not hundreds of songs inspired by including some
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  Speaker 2: of the best songs of all time, the most romantic
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  Speaker 2: songs of all time. It must be quite an interesting
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  Speaker 2: space to be in. But so lyrics were about that
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  Speaker 2: and experience that that Robert and Mary had when they
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  Speaker 2: were down there at beach. He had when They're Close
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  Speaker 2: to Me video was shot and the music Robert had
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  Speaker 2: written a little instrument with them. It was called Shivers
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  Speaker 2: at the time, and he thought it sounded too much
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  Speaker 2: like another girl and other play by the only ones
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the events at NAT it'll be fine, basically,
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  Speaker 2: so they sped it up a bit and just use
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  Speaker 2: this compositional trick that they had started using probably years before,
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  Speaker 2: in which I still deploy from time to time now,
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  Speaker 2: where basically start with one or two instruments, add another one,
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  Speaker 2: add another one at another one. See that. The way
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  Speaker 2: these two is out in the old days was maybe
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  Speaker 2: start with the drums and then the guitar will come
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  Speaker 2: in and the bass and the vocals and you get
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  Speaker 2: to the end and they drop out one by one. Too.
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  Speaker 2: We had like maybe just the drums going in this case,
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  Speaker 2: obviously start with the bass and the drums and the
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  Speaker 2: acoustic guitar comes in, and then you've got your your
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  Speaker 2: guitars come in and the keyboards before that theme comes in. Also,
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  Speaker 2: the song was used as the theme song for French
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  Speaker 2: TV show at the time, so the instrumental of aught
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  Speaker 2: have been familiar to some viewers in France, at least
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  Speaker 2: at the time before it was released as a single.