![]() When we were given our first recording contract, we were so sure that they were never going to sell any records we thought, ‘Right, what we’re going to do here is spend all the money building our own recording studio here in Liverpool so that when nobody buys the record and we get dropped, at least we’ll have the studio! We just didn’t think that what we did was going to sell. We had no concept that we were going to be professionals in the music industry. So you were 16 when you wrote Electricity and there were only four or five bass notes in it… I remember our label asking us if we wanted to be ABBA or Stockhausen. Perhaps, largely unconsciously, what we’d done is distil out of Kraftwerk, Roxy Music and David Bowie a sort of catchy British electric pop thing. ![]() Yes! No one was more surprised than we were when what we thought was experimental music - and all our friends thought was shit - turned out to be great big fat pop hits.
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