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00:16My recollection of animal is fading somewhat because it's a long time ago.
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00:36The one thing about that song, as opposed to everything else on the album,
00:40or anybody that's ever been in a band and had a song that they've lived with for a while but
00:45then ended up rewriting parts of it,
00:47I sang the lead vocal to a completely different backing track.
00:51He was vastly different.
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01:23I did the vocal for it in Paris, we went to work in Paris, I remember we were there when
01:27Live Aid was on, we were there for Bastille all day,
01:31and we were working in this little studio and I did the vocal, we spent a couple of days just
01:35experimenting with it and then nailing it down.
01:37And then when we took the tapes back to Holland where we went to finish the album off, between Holland
01:42and Dublin,
01:44we kind of grew tired of the backing track, but everybody was commenting on how much they liked the lead
01:49vocal,
01:50so I think it would have just said, well look, what I'm going to do is I'm going to strip
01:54all the track off and just leave the vocal playing against the drums.
01:58I want you guys to just play underneath and see what you come up with.
02:02And totally updated the song to the point where it's almost timeless now, whereas before it was starting to age
02:08even before it was released in its original form.
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