Standing Next To Me

Album: The Age of the Understatement (2008)
Charted: 30
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Songfacts®:

  • In a interview on XFM radio, Miles Kane revealed that this song about a love-triangle was a number he'd penned before he got together with Alex Turner and it was one of the first ones he played to his Last Shadow partner. Kane then went on to say that Alex Turner added a D minor on the second chorus to give it an extra lift.

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