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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by: Rich Pelley

‘It’s really saying you’re not gorgeous at all’: how Babybird made You’re Gorgeous

‘It’s a bit of an earworm’ … Babybird, with Stephen Jones, centre, in 1997.
‘A bit of an earworm’ … Babybird, with Stephen Jones, centre, in 1997. Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images

Stephen Jones, songwriter, singer

We’d released five lo-fi albums that had got us noticed in NME and Sounds, but we were yet to be signed to a record label. You’re Gorgeous was one of around 400 demos I’d recorded on a four-track over five years on the dole in Nottingham. I lived above the Victoria Centre and they decided to replace all the windows, which took a year, so I was trying to record while people were pulling out windows.

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