I don't want to hammer this home, but just so you know what I'm on about, here are the pair discussing the writing process re. Stand and Deliver, a couple of years back.
www.m-magazine.co.uk/featuresinterviews/...s/stand-and-deliver/
‘We wrote Stand and Deliver and Prince Charming at the same time,’ says Pirroni. ‘Before I even picked up the guitar, I knew they were going to be No.1. That wasn’t me being arrogant. In my head it was just a fact.’
He recalls going round to Adam’s house in Kensington to write Stand and Deliver.
‘Adam already had this idea about a highwayman. He’d gone off in the kitchen to make some tea and by the time he’d come back I’d come up with the “galloping” verse. The verse is the same as the chorus, but there is a little descending bit which he came up with. And then there’s the verse and different key for the guitar solo. Adam came up with the “Da diddley qa qa” lyric. He’d had that line knocking about for ages.’
Adam picks up the conversation: ‘Marco and I wrote the music together and I wrote the lyrics and top line. My inspiration for the song came from the idea of the heroic English antihero highwayman holding up a stagecoach, but stealing people’s attention instead of their valuables.
‘We had a very traditional and stripped down approach to writing songs. We would go in a room, with two acoustic guitars at the ready and a small dictaphone recorder. Then we’d take it into a 16- track demo studio in Denmark Street to lay down a loose but solid structure. We never wrote in the studio. Time was money and we didn’t have any to waste. This discipline has stayed with me to the present day.’
It was Adam who also came up with the concept and imagery for the band’s videos, as well as their lyrics, both of which would complement Marco’s idiosyncratic riffs.
Compare and contrast with a recent Adam interview on the Guardian website.
www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/oct/...ession-stand-deliver
and this, from a recent Uncut magazine .. although this is so juvenile it's quite funny.
