Daniel Earwicker

You can see three different guitar parts being recorded here: rhythm, bass and lead. It took a long time for this song to grow on me. It seemed quite a boring, overly long song about the hard life of a pop star. But it has two things going for it: 1. the way it winds back and forth between the keys of D and B (by playing the C/A shapes with capo on 2nd fret). 2. the solo is one of the few guitar solos I enjoy - a carefully phrased melody with no disgusting unnecessary jazz twiddling. Lean and economical. On a par with 'Stairway to Heaven' and Hendrix's 'All Along the Watchtower'. And, er... Eddie Van Halen in Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'. (That last one was a joke.)