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Re:wild world - 2008/07/20 08:10
This is the story Karl.
Cat Stevens wrote it. Indeed, in the 60s we were best friends and many of his greatest songs were first heard by myself as he sat on the floor of this very room with his guitar and sang them to me.
Sometimes I went to his little flat (a room above his parents restaurant off Shaftsbury Avenue that he was very proud of) and he played me works in progress.
One day in the 80s the Pet Shop Boys had a smash with a song called It's A Sin and I wrote in my Sun column that I thought it very similar melodically to Wild World.
They sued me so I recorded Wild World with the It's A Sin arrangement to illustrate my point (you can hear it on my box set of 8 CDs). That's probably why your friend thought I wrote it.
They dropped the law suit when I met them on Concorde and they turned out to be nice queens and discovered I was a nice queen too.
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