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Guy Garvey on Elbow’s One Day Like This: ‘Every week, someone tells me they got married to it’
‘We threw strings at the track and it exploded into Lion-King-esque euphoria. I once got sent footage of a few hundred people on either side of a tube track singing it at each other’
I’d tried the idea once before on an Elbow song called Ribcage, where I sing: “Pull my ribs apart and let the sun inside.” I left home at 17 and was absolutely skint for years but, no matter how dark or miserable I got, if I saw the dawn, it was all right. I recall analysing Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve and Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack, as well as Up With People by Lambchop, Loaded by Primal Scream and Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen. There were a lot of the influences that we always came back to – bands such as Beastie Boys, but particularly around that time Rufus Wainwright’s album Want One, specifically a track called Beautiful Child.
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