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The Curse of the Lead Singer

We got an emulator which was like the first, I'm tempted to say affordable but it wasn't affordable but it was very expensive. It was a big thing that you could record any sound into. So we recorded farts and sneezes into it and laughed... The lyrics were all written together by me, Barney and Steve. We would send it through a little bit of spring reverb and then pump the whole lot through the speaker and record it back onto the track. Once that was done, it was more or less finished and it was a song. Bernard ended up getting the show along with Stroll and inherited the curse of the lead singer.

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