It’s that boy Macauley again wot wrote "Gasoline Alley Bred". I mean it’s not like The Hollies couldn’t write a passable tune of their own, sure, but they also knew the value in using a song off someone else’s shelf. (Look, we had to write our own stuff cos Phil Coulter wasn’t returning our calls, obviously; still, at least I was given space on the sleeves to mention all the ‘good’ records, right?) So anyway, “Gasoline Alley Bred”: more doomed rock’n’roll romantic. For us, it was especially central to “Desperado” on “The Great White Wonder”. On the bright side, the idea of somewhere called ‘Gasoline Alley’ has always reminded me of ‘Railway Sidings’ in Hancock’s Half-Hour.
Oh, and if this one had survived and made it onto “Million Seller”, it looks like my sleeve-scrawlings would’ve had a “Gasoline Alley Bred” reference:
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"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album.
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