Chords for Behind The Vinyl - "Moonlight Desires" with Lawrence Gowan

Are you ready?
All right here it comes _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [F] Yeah
Impossible for me to hear the opening of this song
[Cm]
Yeah, [Eb] impossible not not to picture me [Ab] stand myself on top [Fm] of a Mayan pyramid
You know [Cm] in Tio Tio can Mexico [Eb] the Sun coming up [Ab] and a helicopter
[Fm] suddenly
Emerging and coming up over the horizon as I stood on the pyramid of the moon moonlight desires and
John Anderson was standing on the pyramid of the Sun and he was dressed as a Mayan [Bb] God and
_ [Fm] Just the transition from night into day
Although the song is actually more to do with the [Bb] transition from day into night.
It [F] was I
[Cm] Have to say it was a little bit like walking into [Ab] Ringo's house to make strange animal a beetle home
to be on top of a [Cm] pyramid at that time of day after [Bb] having paid off the
the [Cm] guards
At the at [Eb] the site to allow us to do [Ab] this or to let to look the other way for a few [Fm] hours
[Cm] Pretty astounding and then I
[Eb] _ _ [Ab]
Have to say John Anderson [Fm] though the beauty of him in the studio
singing this harmony part is
[Bb] again
One of those
ridiculously fortunate [Cm] things that occurrences in my life [Fm] because he I was such a
Gigantic yes fan
I used to sing along with close to the edge and
Teals from [Cm] topographic oceans just in my room like trying to harmonize with him and then [Bb] to hear it to see him in the studio
[F] Completely different experience this time.
It was in Los [Cm] Angeles
_ Pretty legendary studio there and and to see him come up with that harmony and
[Ab] Come up with it with the whole approach to the [Dm] song
it [Cm] really it really just
[Eb] it just opened the song up [Ab] to said to brought it to a completely other level and
_ [Cm] _
[Eb] Yeah, it's it's a it's great when you [Ab] actually meet one of your idols and [Fm] it goes spectacularly well
[F] I think we've all had the experience where it can go the other way
_ Coming up with [Fm] that and adding that to the song just great again same producer David tickle
Worked on [Cm] this record and did a beautiful job and
He [Ab] had been working with John Anderson on the on the legend
Soundtrack and had played him strange animal and then when he heard the bed [Gm] track that we had done for this song
he really [Cm] liked it and
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] You know that's [Fm] there's all the angels [Cm] singing right there
[Eb] That's what happens right that's fine
[Ab] _ [Fm] Oh, yeah
[Cm] _
[Eb] Dancing around on top of top of pyramid a deep
[Fm] the director Rob Quartley [Cm] who made so many great videos in the
[Eb] In the 1980s and was was kind [Ab] of the central video [Fm] master in Canada that time
[Cm] and just also I love the [Eb] extravagance of making this video, [Ab] you know to use the Mayan pyramids [Fm] and
[Cm] And although we were actually threatened by [Eb] the Mexican authorities that if we [Ab] filmed in the Mayan pyramids any further
We were [Fm] going to be we were going to find out what Mexican [Cm] jail was all about
It's funny.
It's funny because it played there with sticks [Ab] just a few years back and I told that story [Fm] to a bunch of various
[Cm] Security people that were around us and they [Eb] laughed and said no you were allowed [Ab] to do that
You know, everyone's out there with it [Fm] with a an iPhone camera now
[Cm] videoing them
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ [Fm] I love the fact that
[Cm] so many people, you know [Eb] still not just relate to this song, but have discovered it in in years [Fm] since and
_ [Cm]
And it's become you know an important [Ab] song or a pivotal song in their lives and [Fm] that's the the longevity of it is [Cm] is really
[Bb] It's really an astounding thing.
And again, it's it's it's a piece of my life that that
It's like the blood in my veins
[Db] Did everything work out the I'm not gonna do a Ringo [Abm] impression because I've done too many bad ones
But he said did everything work out [Dbm] from the other day?
I heard you having a big disagreement in here
And I thought it was sounding great.
I said, what was that about?
He said you kept going on about the bloody [Gbm] cowbells before the album cover photo session
But we needed to have a fifth member in the band
[B] Now we'd always been a two guitar bass and drums band
But the record company said no you have to have a keyboard player.
So just for laughs we got Matthew's brother
Paul Greenberg to appear and he appears on the album cover doesn't play a note of music _ _ _ _ _ _ _