![]() While Alex Turner's mention of the makers of The Lego Movie (2014) picking up the idea is a whimsical thought, the line has more to do with The Car's musing on the actual creative process of songwriting itself. Unfortunately, the film was cancelled and Kubrick went on to make another masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange. The story relates to a project that the famous director was planning to make after the epic 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. I think it was maybe something like that - they gave it to the Lego guys." "I was imagining those guys taking the Napoleon script that Stanley Kubrick never made. "Well, there's Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman." says Alex Turner. The song Hello You begins with the line: "Lego Napoleon movie, written in noble gas-filled glass tubes". Where did the idea for a Lego Napoleon movie come from? "Sonically it rolls of your tongue," added Matt Helders, helpfully.īrinsley Schwarz in 1974 with Nick Lowe far left and Brinsley Schwartz himself third from left. I hope it doesn't snap anyone out of the moment." ![]() ![]() Mr Schwartz also mentions dubbin, an old fashioned product for polishing and softening leather, which is a pretty colloquial reference, as Alex admitted: "I hope that's not too distracting. This is almost a sequel." What is dubbin? He added: "There was another song we had before, in that La Frette session, which was the first time cropped up. "By the time we got to the studio, that wasn’t there anymore. “There was an idea that we had when we were on tour, of this kind of record that we were trying to make," said Turner. When the band reconvened at La Frette studios in Paris with producer James Ford, their concept was quite different to The Car. The ninth song on the new album The Car, Mr Schwartz is nothing to do with the American poet Delmore Schwartz, who died in 1966 or the British band Brinsley Schwarz, named after their founder and lead guitarist and featuring musician and songwriter Nick Lowe.Īs Alex Turner and Matt Helders explained to John Kennedy, the original sessions for the album started soon after the Tranquility Base tour had ended. Schwartz is staying strong for the crew, wardrobe's lint-rolling your velveteen suit." Tread softly stranger (1958) - Johnny Mansell returns to Rawborough Who is Mr Schwartz? Tread Softly Stranger is a 1958 crime drama filmed in Rotherham and starring Britain's own blonde bombshell Diana Dors and George "Inspector Wexford" Baker. I think I've mentioned it in another song." "There's connection with my granddad to that film, he ended up getting some work when that film was shooting, close to where he was living. It's something that none of us have watched! I guess we've taken the name of the place and put two things together. ![]() "There's a film, set in a place and that's the name. "It's not my fictionalisation," he explains. but it's not a place that Alex Turner has made up. The song Hello You includes the line: "Why not rewind to Rawborough Snooker Club?" Where can one find such an establishment? Well, it's not a real venue. Listen back to Arctic Monkeys' Track By Track of The Car with John Kennedy on Global PlayerĪrctic Monkeys sat down with John Kennedy for a full Track by Track interview - you can listen now!
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