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I found another anti-abortion song in my research, one by Graham Parker (I haven't heard it). Graham Parker: Back and better than ever
Your song "You Can't Be Too Strong" was one of the first anti-abortion songs in rock, apart from the Sex Pistols' "Bodies." How did that one come about?

I just wrote the stuff when I was drunk or out of my head. I literally wrote that song one night after I'd gone to see Wreckless Eric live at Guilford University. I was well tanked up, and he asked me onstage to sing "Johnny B. Goode," which is the worst thing you can do, of course, so we couldn't do anything. Then I drove home-I was staying at my parents' home-I just came home. I was sitting in my parents' living room, ripped out of my head, and I just started playing that song. I wrote it as a kind of up-tempo country song. And it remained like that until Jack Nitzsche heard it. And he said, "It's pretty serious. Slow it down." We did it in one take and it was like this big powerful thing came out.


186 posted on 03/19/2002 1:18:54 AM PST by weegee
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To: weegee
I found another anti-abortion song in my research,

How about POD "Abortion is Murder" ?

189 posted on 03/19/2002 2:48:05 AM PST by Skooz
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