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Fairground Attraction on making Perfect: ‘By the third chorus, everyone was singing along’


‘After its success, I drank free champagne, met Paul McCartney – and used our record company’s phones to call my aunts in America and Canada’

One morning I sat in the kitchen and wrote the words: “I don’t want half-hearted love affairs / I need someone who really cares.” I soon had the first two verses and maybe even the title, Perfect. We won two Brit awards at that terrible ceremony with Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood – the worst programme in TV history When I moved back to London, I started doing stuff with Eddi Reader in between her going off on tour providing backing vocals for people like Alison Moyet. ‘I knew we’d be paying for it all in the end’ … Eddi Reader and the band at Glastonbury in the late 1980s Photograph: Tim Hall/RedfernsWe won two Brit awards at that terrible ceremony with Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood – the worst programme in TV history.

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