8 august 1980 udsender The Only Band That Matters denne kriminelt stærke single…
Mick Jones: “…We made it so everybody could relate to it. It wasn’t exactly the truth, for instance in ‘Lost in the Supermarket’, I didn’t have a hedge in a suburb, I lived in a council flat. With Joe’s words the songs are like folk songs, they’ve become like traditional songs. I think my dad was a bankrobber’s assistant, there was talk of him driving getaway cars, he was a cab driver. It was based on truth but a lot of the time it got mythologized”.
Som sangskriver må du jo kende til, Jens, at blive inspireret af virkeligheden og tage elementer derfra, blande med fantasi og andre virkeligheder – og skabe nye produkter derfra, folkeviserne i Love Shops katalog.
Det var dog en skøn beskrivelse af tekstens “oprindelse”, lyder vel egentligt troværdigt?
utiliseret perfekt af Guy Ritchie i RocknRolla (2008).