Soul Love

Album: BE (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • Liam Gallagher originally penned this as a loved-up strum. The song was then transformed by producer Dave Sitek, who added some gently atmospheric electronics, inspired by the end of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sitek told Q magazine that he didn't want to change its acoustic flavor. "But," he added, "I thought, 'What if the guitar belonged to an astronaut who's never coming back?' He's on the spaceship strumming, as his home planet gets smaller through the window.

    "I was certain the band would say, 'Cut this s--t out,"' Sitek continued, "but Liam listens to it at full volume and says, 'Whoever tries to cut out that ending is a fu--ing copper."'

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