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    "comment": "Ian Astbury, frontman of The Cult, answered the question, \"What's the song about?\" Said Astbury: \"Sex. Plain and simple, it's about sex. I've had sex and I'm very proud of that fact.\"\n\nThe quasi-psychedelic guitar intro from The Cult guitarist Billy Duffy came about on a lark: The band was recording the song at Olympic Studios in Barnes, London, where Led Zeppelin used to record. Zep guitarist Jimmy Page sometimes used a violin bow to play his guitar, so when Duffy found a bow in the studio, he gave it a try just to amuse Ian Astbury, who was listening in the control room.\n\n\"In order to make it sound weirder, I just hit every pedal I had on the pedal board,\" Duffy explained. \"Then once I stopped banging the strings and doing all that, I played the middle section of the song, which was kind of a pick thing with all the BOSS pedals on, and that sound just leaped out.\n\nThe producer went, 'Hold it, hold it, that's great!' And we decided to start the song with that mystical sound. If I hadn't found that violin bow laying around, we wouldn't have gone there.\" https://tinyurl.com/yh3775v7",
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