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Julian Cope - Reynard the Fox

"Everyone in the '80s music scene was making more and more impressive pronouncements about their forthcoming albums and shows. Wham! Madonna! Roman Holliday! Unlike anything you've seen before! Breaking every boundary thus far perceived! Challenging the very notion of entertainment! Fuck off! I got so bored with this refusal to define any boundaries whatsoever that I decided to make the most restrictive rules possible. Like Dylan's 'Masters of War', in which the singer knows his own song "well before I start singing", I now utterly rejected novelty. If it hadn't been done before, then I wasn't interested. I had an ancient and divine desire to travel the roads that were laid before. Tradition would reign from now on, starting with my songwriting. I looked around for the most traditional song I could possibly write. The first idea that I came across was 'Reynard The Fox', a theme so famous that there were 400 versions in Germany alone! This was even better than 'Louie Louie', I thought. Then that I idea blossomed into an intriguing possibility which had me rolling around. I remembered the rhythmic genius of Thomas Grey's poem 'The Fox': "The fox was strong He was full of cunning, He could run for an hour, And still keep running." I played a blast of Glam Descending guitar chords from the tailout of the song 'Black Sabbath' (what the hell, it's also the same proto-Glam Descend as Sabbath's 'Iron Man'). Then I sang a version of Thomas Grey's 'The Fox', incorporating the name Reynard in the refrain. It worked the first time. My idea of tradition delighted me as I wrote and I next decided that I nedeed a monolithic riff for the main verse in order to complement the strange and unlikely Sabbath-ness of the chorus. Ozzy Osbourne was a proto-Reg Presley, so I listened to my Troggs' LPs for crassness, but none of their riffs were fast enough to rip off. I needed something as metal and brazen as 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' or Blue Cheer's version of 'Summertime Blues', or even Pere Ubu playing Grand Funk Railroad. I listened to Emerge by The Litter, but none of their riffs were truly Dark Ages Brutal. Joss came around and immediately suggested the riff from 'I Can Only Give You Everything' - yeah, Bro', it fits the whole Sabbath chorus thing. And suddenly 'Reynard the Fox' was the first result of my restrictions."