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Elvis writes killer rhythmic tunes. The Attractions arranged this into a beating stomper that always whips up the crowd. Now I found a new key and a new riff to play this song on the piano, like Terry Riley went to Mali.
Great song, great tune composed by Clive Langer. They wrote it for my friend Robert Wyatt. I love playing this tune. It is a symphony of emotion: "Diving for dear life when we could be diving for pearls." A tune that always brings forth a new surprise. Timeless.
Although this has such killer unusual melodic moments, super-classical and intricate, it also contains a passage or two of sublime simplicity that lends itself to a contemplative jazz mood. That makes a wonderful piano solo.
It has such an extraordinary melodic range and, again, contemplative jazz harmony. A Burt Bacharach collaboration for sure, but it sounds like pure Elvis to me.
Elvis collaborated with me on a project called
[an opera written by Muriel Teodori], and it seems Muriel's subject interested him loads—look at all the songs about the "voice" he has composed since then. They all have one thing in common: unusual melodies and harmonies that make beautiful piano pieces.
WWeek 2015