“Legend has it that George Clinton, under the influence of LSD (as per, George!), told Hazel during the recording session for Maggot Brain to play “like your momma had just died” – and his extraordinary 10-minute guitar solo, recorded in one take, was the result. It became the title track of the band’s 1971 album-”...
Kate: “It's the first song I've ever written in the studio. It's not specifically about Ireland, it's just putting the case of a mother in these circumstances, how incredibly sad it is for her. How she feels she should have been able to prevent it. If she'd bought him a guitar when he asked for one.”...