"It’s just a fucking laugh, isn’t it? It’s got, like, three “rock’n’rolls” in it. We were in Miami on tour once and we just got off a long flight to there and we had an idea for a song called 'Brick By Brick’ and so we wrote it that night just sorta in a bar. But it were quite loose, we thought about it as the concept of a song and all these things that you want to do — brick by brick — and we just made a list of them that was probably three times as long as what it ended up over that night and the next few weeks.
It was probably the first tune we had for this. We’re also working on 'Brick By Brick 2.0’. It’s called 'IDST’. Do you remember that? When you’d write on a bus seat, or whatever, 'I love whoever IDST’ — If Destroyed Still True? So that iron’s in the fire now.”
Alex Turner on 'Brick By Brick':
"It’s just a fucking laugh, isn’t it? It’s got, like, three “rock’n’rolls” in it. We were in Miami on tour once and we just got off a long flight to there and we had an idea for a song called 'Brick By Brick’ and so we wrote it that night just sorta in a bar. But it were quite loose, we thought about it as the concept of a song and all these things that you want to do — brick by brick — and we just made a list of them that was probably three times as long as what it ended up over that night and the next few weeks. It was probably the first tune we had for this. We’re also working on 'Brick By Brick 2.0’. It’s called 'IDST’. Do you remember that? When you’d write on a bus seat, or whatever, 'I love whoever IDST’ — If Destroyed Still True? So that iron’s in the fire now.”
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