Throughout childhood we’re taught how to behave, yet we’re very rarely told anything about the deeper purpose of life. The song was born out of my questions about what really mattered in life. “Right away, I knew what I wanted to say. And in that moment, the whole concept for the song came into focus. Immediately, Hodgson reeled off words that rhymed: intellectual, radical… logical. And as I started singing the melody, the first word that came to me was ‘liberal’…” But then one day when I was playing the chords, I heard the melody. “I had these chords written,” he says, “and I hadn’t thought much of them, to tell the truth. ![]() The band were in Los Angeles, about to begin recording the Breakfast In America album, when Hodgson sat alone at a Wurlitzer electric piano and began playing around with a chord progression he’d toyed with, off and on, for a couple of months. It was in early 1978 that The Logical Song started coming together.
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