00:16My recollection of animal is fading somewhat because it's a long time ago.
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00:36The one thing about that song, as opposed to everything else on the album or anybody that's ever been in a band and had a song that they've lived with for a while but then ended up rewriting parts of it, I sang the lead vocal to a completely different backing track.
00:51It was vastly different.
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01:23I did the vocal for it in Paris. We went to work in Paris. I remember we were there when Live Aid was on, we were there for the Bastille day and we were working in this little studio and I did the vocal. We spent a couple of days just experimenting with it and then nailing it down.
01:37And then when we took the tapes back to Holland where we went to finish the album off, between Holland and Dublin, we kind of grew tired of the backing track.
01:47But everybody was commenting on how much they liked the lead vocals. So I think it would have been much, just said, well look, what I'm going to do is I'm going to strip all the track off and just leave the vocal playing against the drums.
01:57I want you guys to just play underneath and see what you come up with. And totally updated the song to the point where it's almost timeless now. Whereas before it was starting to age even before it was released in its original form.
