Fran Healey (Travis)
Another Sleep Song by Graham Nash (1973)

"I heard it first in 2002. It was written in 1973, the year I was born. The melody was so fresh and new to me and the lyric felt poetic and conversational at the same time. I listened to pretty much this same song for a whole year till I knew it inside out. I was addicted to it.

Then, a year later, in a wierd twist of fate, I bumped into Graham in the lobby of a hotel in Manchester. He was in town to hang a photography exhibition. He invited me down to the gallery. After our soundcheck a runner drove me to the Richard Goodall Gallery and we chatted about the song. He said it was about a very famous actress/singer he knew and about how isolated she had become. He was so affected by the sight of her vegging out that he went into another room of her house and wrote it then and there.

Downstairs in the Goodall gallery we spotted an old out of tune upright piano so he rushed over and started retracing the chords saying as he did that he hadn't played it for 25 years! After a minute of chopping and changing he performed the song right there, while he was playing his wife came up and told me that if I asked him to play it on stage tonight with the band he would probably do it. After he finished I popped the question and without a second thought, he accepted.

I rushed back to the venue, heart on fire and got Nora to play it down the phone so we could hear all the parts...That evening at the encore he came on and played. Coincidentally there was a documentary team following him about at this time and they filmed the whole thing."

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