To hear Bowie talk about Taylor as an inspiration is quiet something. But the reason I bring this up is that there is a musical piece of Vince speaking that reminds me of a taylored (tailored?) down Be Bop Deluxe song. Observatory is the key word. All guesses are final.
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Actually, the lyric in 'Futurist Manifesto' is "Observatory gardens sing yes no more..." The lyric was created by using a variation on William Burroughs' 'cut up' technique. Instead of physically cutting words and phrases from magazines and scrambling them up, I used a dice throw method to choose words and phrases from a copy of 'Country Life' magazine that was lying around the studio. If I threw a six, for instance, I would write down the sixth word in a given sentence, or maybe the first word in the sixth line, and so on. When I'd accumulated enough words I'd then play around with their order to create the final lyric. It produced some nice surprises and almost seemed like an actual narrative.