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There’s also the crazed racket of “Motorbike Song” and the alluring ballad “Big Dreams,” written on acoustic guitar and matched in tone by a wistful music video directed by longtime collaborator John Angus Stewart.

It all plays like a modern riff on Roald Dahl, with that writer’s wit and penchant for the piquant cruelty of kids and adults alike, filtered through Elliot’s more wistful if equally whimsical sensibility.

Lesh also sang the wistful Box Of Rain, which he wrote while his father was dying.

“Somebody Somewhere” changed Hiller’s life, so obviously he’s wistful to see it come to a conclusion.

But if you’re wistful for big city glitz and grit, the sights, sounds and scents of Hollywood Boulevard await.