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I said, “Why don’t we do a similar thing to that? Let’s just name-check as many artists that influenced us as we possibly can.” And obviously there’s artistic license with a few people who weren’t part of our musical DNA but are there for rhyming reasons, like Jet Black and whoever. So I remember thinking, “Why don’t we just use the rocket thing as a metaphor, and make the song a vehicle to talk about our childhoods?” Like, the Easybeats took the easy way out with “Friday on My Mind” - they turned it into a genius thing by just naming the days of the week. Read the full SHOW REPORT SUBMIT - Reviews / Photos. But I felt like Bowie had done the space thing to death. A crowd of over 20,000 fans witnessed the band playing the same 17 song setlist with no changes.

When it came to the lyrics, we started singing “rocket” because it was a simplistic phrase that fit the sort of space-age sound that had developed over this African drum loop. Then we all bashed it into shape as a piece of music. I started putting chords on top of it, and that turned into what is now the chorus of this song. So I borrowed it off that friend and made a loop of the actual drum pattern. The “Burundi Black” thing was just a much more rustic, urban, natural version of that. It reminded me of when I was 12 and I went to this children’s disco and “Rock and Roll Part 2” came on.

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It really got under my skin and sucked me in. I’d been hanging out with somebody in Holland who had been playing me “Burundi Black,” which has this immensely hypnotic African drum pattern.

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