Hi. It was nice to put a face to the name on Monday morning, and yes, 6:00am is early, but worth it! I had just told terry before everyone else joined that I was trying to cram some breakfast in before 6:00, as I was nil by mouth after 6:00 for an mri with sedation at 2:00pm. I’m in a hospital in Sydney doing the work up for deep brain stimulation surgery in a couple of months.

In merging of your article and the album discussion, the song ‘Rock Lobster’ was 6:49 long, the single version was 4:52, and the radio edit was 3:57!

Yeah, the My Sharona example is ridiculous. There are some weird ones too. Do you remember Jerry Harrison from Talking Heads and his album Casual Gods? There was a single called Man With A Gun. It goes for 4:40. But there’s a longer version that has an impression guitar solo/outro, that goes for 6:41; that version is not on the album, not on Spotify, but I’ve seen it on YouTube. It’s just superb.