The Influences of Different Songs Through 17 Seconds

The photo on the cover of 17 seconds emerged because Robert Smith used to take photos on tour and he dropped his camera. Song number one is Van Morrison's Madam George off Astral Weeks. Nick Drake's Fruit Tree off the 1970 album Five Leaves Left also a beautiful song. A ballet piece by the composer, RM Katurian, who is Armenian, called the Guyana Ballet Sweet number one, Adagio. That was on the soundtrack to 2001 A Space Odyssey,. Jimmy Hendrix's live version of Bob Dylan's All on the Watchtower from the very Isle of White Festival that the 11 year old Robert Smith missed because he was inside of 10 prison. And Susie puts out