Chords for Sounds: Donnie interviewing Prefab Sprout's Paddy and Wendy (1985)

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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ When you're hot, you're hot, John.
When you're not, you're not. _ _
_ [F] Is it raining outside?
Is [G] anyone_ _
Can I take a wet?
Yeah. _ _
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[Db] Prefabs Sprout are very, [E] very big in England and are starting [Dm] to get their way here in Australia.
While we were there [Db] recently, they had the number one record and it stayed in the top
ten for quite some time.
[G] Song that is called Appetite.
We've [F] played it a couple of times here now.
From that [Cm] interview, which Appetite is 48 this week, by [F] the way.
From that interview with two members, we [G] spoke with Paddy and the lovely lady out of the group.
Now, I asked Paddy where he gets his inspiration from to actually write the music that they play.
[B] _ _ Oh, that's a [Ab] difficult one, really.
_ _ I mean, inspiration [Gb] itself is a strange idea [Dbm] because I don't think I've ever been [Ab] lying
in bed in the classic_
I'm not going to say anything risky here, chaps. _
_ I don't know if I've ever been lying in bed in the Paul McCartney fashion and tumbled
out and thought, [G] yesterday.
I've never, ever done [Ab] that.
However, I've sat many days with a guitar and had absolutely no ideas, but by virtue
of [G] the fact that I've stuck there with it, I've come up with [D] things.
So a lot of it is [Ab] workmanlike.
You [Bb] hope that maybe if you just get a little seed of something [Ab] that you can [G] develop it.
And just _ observation, imagination, [Ab] really.
Those things are trigger writing.
[Dm] Wendy, how did you meet the guys?
[Ab] _ I just threw a friend [Db] a few years ago.
_ _ _ You've got such a light [Cm] voice.
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The contrast between my gruff thing.
[D] Yeah, yeah, [Ab] when she sings, I mean, _ _ Wendy's at the top of the sound range and I'm somewhere
in the middle, really [G] foggy.
And _ she's our selling point, guys, close up. _
_ _ How long has this been there, been [Ab] there?
Well, it was formed by my brother and myself.
So we've been doing this since, I mean, [Abm] ridiculously [G] long time, since about 1972 when I was a
grand age of [Db] 15.
_ _ _ Obviously, [Ab] then we didn't have _ all the equipment and just acoustic guitars.
And we met [G] Wendy about 1980 and she joined a year or so later.
So [Dm] it's just grown with a [G] childhood, a _ [A] lot of fun and [G] imitating our heroes on the television
into actually making records [Dm] ourselves.
Pre [Ab]-fab Sprat.
Who is the Sprat? _
_ The Pre-fab Sprat is something [Db] that's haunted me [G] ever since we picked it.
_ [Gb] _ It's just [Ab] when I was about 11 or 12, _ my hero was Mark Bullen and T-Rex, Tyrannosaurus Rex.
A fabulous [G] group.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ And all the kids I went to school with used to like bands.
This is before Mark Bullen was a big teeny Bob Idol.
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[G] Tyrannosaurus Rex sort of typified a [Bb] typical, the typical British band who [Db] was supposedly
profound because no one knew what [Ab] the hell they were on about.
_ [Bb] And I thought, well, if you're going to have any serious recognition, you'd better have
[Ab] quite a weighty name.
So I stuck two disconnected words together [Bb] thinking that that made us brilliant.
[G] In the same way as Moby Grape or Grateful Dead.
When you're 11, you think that's profound.
And as you grow older, you [Gb] realize it's totally [C]
ridiculous.
But as the whole thing is totally [Db] ridiculous anyway, aside from the music, [Gb] that has haunted
me ever since.
I mean, no one [D] ever, I've never heard anybody say to Orchestral Maneuvers in [Gbm] the Dark,
where'd you get your name?
I've never heard anybody say to Green, [E] Scritti Politti, Aztec Camera.
We [Gbm] always get it, always. _
[D] Thanks for talking to us.
And good luck with your singles in Australia.
[Gb] Thank you.
Wendy, say goodbye real loud.
[E] Bye.
Bye.
_ Even louder. _ _