A Heady Tale

Album: Here We Stand (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • Frontman Jon Fratelli told The Sunday Mail May 4, 2008 about this piano-driven epic: "There is a lot of piano on the album and this started it. I wrote it on a video shoot in the States and could not wait to get home to the piano. It's probably my favorite song on the album and people really like it live. I think it will be huge and it had a big influence on the rest of the record. It let me see where the album could go."
  • Jon Fratelli added in an interview with the Daily Mail June 6, 2008: "I didn't sit down to write a mini-opera, but I love songs that cram a lot of ideas into a short space of time."

Comments: 2

  • Amy from Liverpool, United Kingdomthis song is just indescribably brilliant. its one of my favorites
  • Chanel from Somewhere, WaThis song is just... amazing.
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