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Charlemagne - it had to be the opening track. i remember writing this on my casio keyboard i’d had since i was 12 at home. originally called ‘Made Of Lead’ my brother suggested the name Charlemagne after hearing the ‘kingdom reigned’ lyrics...
it was also the first time i’d put lyrics to the main hook of the song and made that the chorus. I heard Arctic Monkeys do it on ‘Knee Socks’ so I thought i’d give it a go, thank fuck i did…showed it the band next day i’m pretty sure Myles was like ‘i’m not sure about this one’
but it came together really fast and i think we demo’d it in the next few weeks and showed our manager Conrad here’s his reaction…
we had no record deal at this point but Virgin had got involved on previous single Blown Rose as a tester so to speak, we sent Charlemagne as the follow up single and they called back an hour later offering us an album deal, big up Jodie and Nick..
Lyrics don’t mean anything personally, it’s just subconscious`stream of thought and words that sounded good. Was originally going to change the HELLO HELLO opening line that was just the first thing i sang with the melody…
Had no idea how big this tune would become, changed our lives, hard to put your finger on what makes a song one of THEM songs, but this is one of THEM.
