L.A. GOODBYE – SECRET SERVICE

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As a follow-up to “Ye-Si-Ca” I wrote “L.A. Goodbye”. The band found it little bit silly, but at the same time catchy.

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Peter Goldmann, who had become world famous after making videos for The Beatles songs “Strawberry Fields” and “Penny Lane”, made the videos for both “Ye-Si-Ca” and “L.A. Goodbye”. But I suspect to a completely different budget…

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If not the best, “L.A. Goodbye” is definitely not the worst. When another well-known Swedish songwriter and artist borrowed parts from the song some years later, I took it as a compliment.

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Sometimes when I stand on a stage in Russia singing “L.A. Goodbye” I feel a fantastic response from the audience. They still love the song.  And when I sing my unimaginable high vocal harmony:

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“We tried to stay together, as if it were forever” …

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…I always get a tear in my eyes and feel great respect for Björn Håkanson who wrote the story of a couple leaving each other at an airport. But romantics like me, they probably only exist in Russia today…