‘Our computer sampler cost more than a house!’: how the Korgis made Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime

‘I wrote it in 20 minutes one Sunday morning and there have now been more than 50 cover versions. My favourite is the brooding one Beck did for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’

We’d had a Top 20 single in the UK with If I Had You and were recording our second Korgis album, Dumb Waiters. I was living in Bath and had a piano in the flat that I couldn’t really play – I am a guitarist and bass player. But regardless, I battled away at the ivories every day trying to come up with interesting chord sequences.

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