"The only story about this one is that I was obsessed by a song in the seventies when I was a little boy called If You Could Read My Mind. Does anyone know that song, by Gordon Lightfoot? You know, "bout a ghost from a wishing well" "if you could read my mind, love" and you know there's that bit [sings this part] "don't say a prayer for me now" [from Save A Prayer, not If You Could Read My Mind] well it kinda comes from [singing again, getting you to hear how close the melody is] "and you won't read that book again" It actually inspired two songs, two Duran Duran songs and this is one of them, this is Save A Prayer"
-Simon on VH1 Storytellers: Duran Duran
"The only story about this one is that I was obsessed by a song in the seventies when I was a little boy called If You Could Read My Mind. Does anyone know that song, by Gordon Lightfoot? You know, "bout a ghost from a wishing well" "if you could read my mind, love" and you know there's that bit [sings this part] "don't say a prayer for me now" [from Save A Prayer, not If You Could Read My Mind] well it kinda comes from [singing again, getting you to hear how close the melody is] "and you won't read that book again" It actually inspired two songs, two Duran Duran songs and this is one of them, this is Save A Prayer" -Simon on VH1 Storytellers: Duran Duran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Could_Read_My_Mind_(song)
@laurelinwyntre Love the Gordon Lightfoot song - oddly I was first introduced to it by the oddball comic tv programme, 'Trigger happy TV'
@laurelinwyntre Love the Gordon Lightfoot song - oddly I was first introduced to it by the oddball comic tv programme, 'Trigger happy TV'