Boys Keep Swinging

Album: Lodger (1979)
Charted: 7
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Brian Eno, David Bowie
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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  • Robert from Dallas, TxAccording to Belew, Bowie and Eno heard Adrian Belew playing around with the guitar part from "Heroes" (played by Fripp on the album years earlier) and did not stop him until later to inform him that was multiple takes layered together. Bowie's lyric is a comment on Belew's tenacity.
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