Breakfast Epiphany

Album: 1,2, Kung Fu (2018)
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  • This was the last song Boy Azooga recorded for their 1,2, Kung Fu album. Singer Davy Newington came up with the chorus lyric in the shower. He kept repeating it again and again so that he didn't forget the lyrics before he could write it in his phone notes.

    "Having said the lyrics over and over to myself so as not to forget them," Newington told the BBC. "I thought I would do that in the actual song too, like a chant or something. It's quite a sad song so I thought I'd give it a daft pun name."
  • The song was inspired by the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy. He explained to Drowned in Sound: "There is a scene where he takes LSD and lies on the grass, suddenly all of the flowers and life around him start to blossom and the instrumental version of 'Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)' starts to play. I heard that and came up with the idea of having the 'Breakfast Epiphany' chorus melody come back and lead in to 'Taxi To Your Head.'"
  • Newington cites Brian Wilson as one of his heroes. It was his father, a former violinist with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who first got the singer into the Beach Boys when he was really young so he thought "it was great" to have his dad play strings on this track.

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