"Kelly: "We were waiting for a plane in New Zealand and all these sailors were walking in and out of the bar. Everyone was acting really weird and there were lesbians at the bar. I thought the bartender must see so many different things as people change character, from Jekyll to Hyde, sober to drunk. So I wrote this completely tongue-in-cheek story about the bartender and the thief who is robbing everybody. I found the melody for the chorus on a dictaphone tape. I'd been putting ideas on tape for two years and had never played them back before, until then!"
Kelly: "The song came from an idea we had in this weird bar in New Zealand. It was this really strange place where these mad sailors wandered in and out all night."
"Kelly: "We were waiting for a plane in New Zealand and all these sailors were walking in and out of the bar. Everyone was acting really weird and there were lesbians at the bar. I thought the bartender must see so many different things as people change character, from Jekyll to Hyde, sober to drunk. So I wrote this completely tongue-in-cheek story about the bartender and the thief who is robbing everybody. I found the melody for the chorus on a dictaphone tape. I'd been putting ideas on tape for two years and had never played them back before, until then!" Kelly: "The song came from an idea we had in this weird bar in New Zealand. It was this really strange place where these mad sailors wandered in and out all night."
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