Chords for Hugh Cornwell on BBC Breakfast 120912

Has hints of his punk roots.
Well, Hugh will be with us in a moment.
First, let's remind ourselves of way back when and that band. _
_ [A#] _ _ [C] Whatever happened to [Gm] the hero?
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Whatever [C] happened to the [Gm] hero?
_ _ _ Whatever [C] happened to [F] _ [Gm] _ Hero [C] Maniac?
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[G] Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout [D] the night, [Em] no [D] need to fight
_ [Em] Never a [D] frown, [C#] go [Bm]
round
_ [D] Always the sun, _ [G] always the sun
Always, [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ always, [G] _
always [A] the sun _ _ _
And Hugh's here now.
Very good morning to you.
Good to see you again.
Hello there.
Now, [F] I'm puzzled by something here because we played The Stranglers and you must think,
oh, crikey, The Stranglers was so long ago and I haven't been with them for 20 years, [F#] all that.
And yet [E] you still talk about it a lot.
And in your gigs, half of the gig is devoted to performing one whole Stranglers album.
That's a very good point, Bill.
But the thing, the reason I talk about it is because people bring it up.
_ [C#] If no one brought it up, I wouldn't say anything.
If you were Lou Reed, you'd just say, boring question, [E] I'm not going to go on with it.
Oh, I see.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know if Lou plays much of his old material from the band he used to be in, which I won't mention.
_ Don't worry, he's not here.
_ All right, the Velvets.
But, _ I mean, a lot of those songs, I really like the songs that I wrote The Stranglers
and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't enjoy still playing them.
But when I play them now, I don't play them exactly the way that I played them originally
because I'm only a three-piece, a trio, so there's no keyboards.
_ So I have to do new arrangements and that keeps it interesting for me.
If I was just playing exactly the same, I'd get a bit bored playing the old [N] stuff.
And in fact, on this new tour, we're going to be playing No More Heroes album, which is the second Stranglers album,
and half of it we're going to be playing with keyboards.
My bass player is going to play keyboard bass.
So it's going to be something different, you know, it's something you enjoy.
But I suppose also, it is a no-no to the fans, isn't it?
[E] I mean, they love you for being Hugh, they love you for being The Stranglers.
Yeah, you know, you've got to try [N] and_
I mean, people pay a lot of money for tickets these days
and _ sometimes you meet people and say, I went to see them and, God, it was crap.
You know, they didn't play that, didn't play that, [C] didn't play that.
And you think, well, these are the people that are paying for the tickets.
Why shouldn't you try and please them, you know, rather than upset them,
just deliberately _ [G#m] be obtuse [G] about it, you know?
Yes, but they also [E] want to see you surging forward musically
and playing your new material like the single Totem and Taboo, which we have here now. Yeah.
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A lot of cabaret, wasn't it?
Yeah, yeah, good girls.
Cabaret Rouge, great bunch of girls.
And one of the things that's brilliant about this album for the fans
is that fans have put a lot of money into it.
They have, indeed.
You've raised the money through asking for cash.
Absolutely.
Yeah, it's a new concept.
You know, record companies are going bust all the time and you suddenly realise_
I think it was Meridian a few years ago were the first to do it.
They realised that, actually, the fans want the record,
so why don't we ask them to help pay for it?
I mean, I've been to a bank manager and asked them for the money to make a record,
so there's no reason why you can't ask your fans.
[F#] They're the ones that are going to benefit from it.
So how much money were fans _ giving towards the [C#] record?
Well, they _ [E] didn't give the whole amount,
because if you asked for the whole amount, you probably would never raise it.
And the thing is, it's a pledge, so don't actually part with any money
until _ the target is reached.
If you set too high a target, you never get anything,
so you have to deliberately set it low so that you reach the target.
But if I pledge to your next recording, do I get_
I accept cheques.
Do I get a percentage of the mega-million pound profits that comes as a result?
No, no, no, you pledge for a signed limited edition T [F]-shirt or [E] to be in the video.
I mean, some of the fans were actually pledged to be in the film that we've made,
and they're in there.
Because you had to work for this money.
I mean, I had a look at the pledge list.
Absolutely.
[F#] _ As you say, you could get a manuscript of your book.
You could_
If I pledged [E] thousands of pounds, you would come to [F#] my party_
I would have come and played in your living room.
And done a set.
Absolutely.
How much for that?
A few thousand pounds, I think.
Well, [E] that must have_
That's a cheap gig, [N] isn't it? _
_ Yeah, for them.
I was going to say, exactly, selling _ yourself short [E] on that.
But they're fans, you know, and you can't pitch it realistically,
otherwise you'll never get anywhere.
So have you got a packed diary now of gigs you could do in [Em] people's rooms?
I've done a couple, actually, this summer.
Yeah, one was for a punk jubilee.
Someone's in their back garden at sort of a party for their friends,
and there are all these kids running around and people in fancy dress with Mohicans.
That's what you come through for, a punk hit.
Have you got a guitar with you today?
Unfortunately, I've got a blow-up one, no.
All right, [F] well, if we give you ten, [E] afterwards,
can you do an a cappella version of Golden Ground?
If you pledge.
_ OK.
Thank you, thanks very much.
It's great to see you, thanks so much.
The new single is Totem & Taboo, it's out now.
The album is out this week, and the tour starts in October,
but meanwhile he's in lots of people's houses in the