Badly Drawn Boy

"Last year, Damon Gough had a leaky roof. His Uncle Will, his dad's brother -a builder - came round to fix it. Talk turned to Damon's paternal grandad. William Gough had been bayoneted in the Normandy landings. He was 34. Will told Damon how he had gone to see his grave in France; he was 34 at the time. When Damon heard this story, he himself was 34.

"I got to thinking a lot about numbers," Gough says, "and how things can come around, how time can be bent." He became interested in the power of the number one: the quietly soaring title track, which opens the album, can be about the indivisibility of a loving union (he is devoted to his partner Clare and his kids Oscar, two, and Edie, three and a half, all of whom appear somewhere on the album). Or, he says, it can be a reference to the more yoga-friendly notion that one is the ultimate number, the only relevant number. "But the real reason for the album title is that one day I had a total mental block: if one times one is one, and one divided by one is one, how come one plus one isn't one? I really couldn't work it out."

Excerpt taken from independent.co.uk

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