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“But I was like, I think people love when you do that because it’s weird and funny and hooky. It makes you remember the song more because it’s not correct.”

“I just tried to think, what's really hooky and what would be fun to sing with a crowd. Those were my parameters.”

Supposedly playing hooky from filming a movie, he visits the walrus diorama at the Natural History Museum.

He developed a sound mixing folk, classic rock, blues and hooky pop, and signed to local independent label Beserkley Records to release his first album in 1976.

Eight years since its last proper album, it reasserted that its suave, hooky funk — upended by twitchy samples and grinding distortion — retained all its potency.