Pretty Peggy

Album: Victorious (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is a change of pace to the other tracks on Victorious. Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale originally penned the tune back in 2014. He told Loudwire: "That one I just picked up the acoustic, played it once, put down the lyrics, put down the bass, put down the drums. It was done in probably an hour. That was one of those songs that just wrote itself."

    "I left it for maybe a year, I didn't even have a copy of the demo, until we started making the record in LA with Brendan O'Brien. We got to about the fourth or fifth song and I thought, 'I should send him this song, he might like it.' He's a bit more open to the acoustic songs, I could see he wasn't just a 'riff-focused' producer. So I asked Kev, who does a lot of engineering for me, I was like, "Do you have that song 'Pretty Peggy' anywhere? Can you email it to me?" So he sent it through and I forwarded onto Brendan. He was like, 'We gotta do this one.' It was a bit left field. I wasn't sure if it would suit the whole thing but I think it's turned out to be."

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