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You (2)

This was the second iteration of You, a collaboration. Notable for my cheesy "harpsichord" playing and my cousin's truly unfortunate lyric; yet, there was a third claim to infamy, albeit one I didn't spot for a few decades.

I started giving our different takes of the same song Roman numerals "title II, title III, etc.," but that soon became confusing, especially heading into double figures (by then, it was also a sure sign that the song stunk, if we still couldn't get a handle on it). So I switched to more conventional numbers.

Neither of us spotted the obvious, but we should have -- this was in early 1984, and U2 had just a few months earlier released their first really big album, War ("Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Pride (In The Name Of Love)." Little did I suspect it then, but my musical career would last nearly as long as that of Bono and the lads. Not nearly as lucrative, mind you -- but here we are in 2011, listening (well, some of you are, I hope) to the timeless tunes of the times.


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