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‘Liam Gallagher kissed me on the lips’: Ocean Colour Scene on making The Riverboat Song and 90s excess

‘Chris Evans told us he wanted it for the TFI Friday walk-on music. He had a thousand ideas – which is weird because he was probably the only one not doing cocaine’

It was a time when everything wasn’t scrutinised as much as it is in the studio today – it was rawer, a bit more like a live performance where you don’t get to change things. It’s like a 6/8 blues waltz, and we kept thinking: “People aren’t gonna be able to dance to this.” But Chris Evans made it single of the week and when we did the TFI Friday pilot, he said he wanted it as the walk-on music. I remember seeing Prince soundcheck in the studio one time, with Larry Graham from Sly and the Family Stone on bass.

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