(It's two years and two days, since I was last close by to Steve and Cockney Rebel and knowing that it will never happen again, leaves a considerable void)
Ruthy,
I think Steve says 'One-Four...', but I've never been certain. The one piece of circumstantial that supports this, is the tempo of the song. Circa 141 bpm (or 144 bpm, as I have referred to in another thread herein). X
22 Feb 25 -
Rebels, enjoy the weekend...
Oh Mistertea...thanks for joining the debate here on Ruthy's thread. I will check the lyrics on the inside of my LP 'Love's A Prima Donna' but I'm pretty sure 'the words used' are not there (they're not, I've just checked). These must have been said on either the album or the single or both (I have both) but as we are still to update our system and the needle on our old record player is worn, I can't check audibly, at the moment...I know that Steve's two words are not on the live 'Face to Face' (1977). It's the kind of thing just said in the studio - and then left in the master...
You've also made me think about one aspect of psychological/personal memory, which might lead to me writing further, at a later date - something that was touched upon in one of my earlier health sciences modules (?) but also, I've repeatedly wondered, over the years, why Steve wrote a song entitled (I Believe) Love's A Prima Donna - and based an album around it? Perhaps this offers potential via another forum question?
1974-1976 must have been a very exciting period in his career, for him. For most of it, too, he was 25 years old or under. The success came - with a lot of changes albeit with some upheaval, maybe...
I will still write further on my Timeless Flight...thread. I'm getting some material together for it. I've recognised that this is moving from where it started out, somewhere within the equivalent of the (Freudian) 'Pleasure Principle', to a greater emphasis on the (Freudian) 'Reality Principle'. Or as Bryan Ferry once sang (For Your Pleasure, Roxy Music, 1973), '...Part true, part false, like anything'...('false might also be true - as far as the unconscious or a memory made conscious, is concerned?) As Steve Harley once sang, '...only children can live upon a timeless flight'...
