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life if I wanted to live and carry on so I locked and came across some riffs that he liked the soul just came through in the mix as well. So
myself away in the house. In order to keep my- sound of. “I thought, “Wow, I’ve got to use that yeah, I’m really, really pleased with how it
self ticking over and not going absolutely stir riff”,” he says. “There was one riff in particular turned out, considering how the song came
crazy I pulled all my old records out and went in a song that used to be called ‘I Think I’m In about and where it all came from.”
through my whole record collection and got out Love’ and I wrote it when I was 16 or 17 and it
my own vinyl player again and fell back in love had so much passion to it, real gut passion, illy chose to quit drinking on New
with music, because for a good couple of years and I thought, “I’m going to re-write these lyrics BYear’s Day 2014 – and over a year
now I’ve been so focused on making music to talk about what I’m kind of going through later he’s still sober. Well done, Billy! Looking
that I’ve never really sat down and enjoyed now”, the sort of tug of war that’s going on in back he says it began disguised as a Dryathlon
music in the way that I used to. So I reset up my soul. So I reworded the lyrics and I had the charity venture. “My family and my wife in par-
my old vinyl player, my amp and got my whole song totally restructured and I took it in ticular were keen on getting me away from the
records out of the attic and went through all the to Charlotte and Josh and they said, “Wow, I booze and I think they saw in me that if I wasn’t
records – all the Motown records I love, all the think this might really work”. Sometimes you going to do it for myself I’d do it for someone
jazz records and all the rock ‘n’ roll records and take an idea in and think, “Gosh, this is a great else. And Dryathlon was a thing where I wasn’t
then I sort of found all these old CDs and demo idea” and you work through it and you organize just doing it for me I was doing it for a cause, I
tapes that we made way, way before we made it and structure it and then you record it and it was doing it for the charity; I was doing it for
our first record, ‘Young For Eternity’ in 2005.” doesn’t sound so good, but luckily enough with the people donating. So they said, “Do Dry-
He went through all the demos and songs this song, all the passion, all the gut, and all the athlon, it’ll be a great idea, it’ll be something to

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