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‘Our computer sampler cost more than a house!’: how the Korgis made Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime

‘I wrote it in 20 minutes one Sunday morning and there have now been more than 50 cover versions. My favourite is the brooding one Beck did for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’

The finished result sounded gorgeous and we really started to feel we’d come up with something special when friends dropped by the studio to have a listen and were bowled over by this strange and utterly unique creation. James sat down at the piano and said: “Well, I’ve got this song.” He did a verse that was in a plaintive minor key but when he went to the chorus, it changed to a major which gave it a more uplifting mood, rather Beatles-ish sounding. We were lucky because Peter Gabriel, who I’d been working with, lent us new instruments, his cousin having become English distributor for the revolutionary – and expensive – Fairlight computer sampler keyboard.

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