BIG TIME SUPERSTAR (T. Kerns/B. Muscat)

When I went to Europe with Brent's version of Faster Pussycat featuring Eric and Brett from the original version we started writing songs for an intended album for that band. One was 'Goin' To Vegas' and this one. Brent brought this song in. Very Beatles meets Bowie. We got pretty carried away in the best possible way. Big Queen vocals. Strings, Piano. It's the most epic on the cd. The title was initially pointedly directed at someone in a negative way but I couldn't help finding it's theme more familiar and melancholy. We've all had ups and downs in our careers. We've been lucky enough to play with a lot of cool people and every one of them were amazingly cool. This song is more directed at that 1% who were total jerks and now that it's over things must seem pretty sobering. Great solo by Brent. Really channeling his inner Clapton.  I play the piano in the solo section and Ellis is on the sythetic cello. My co-producer Kurt spear headed the great vocal arrangement in the middle eight. Very Beatles via Cheap Trick. That's he and I 'doo doo dooing' our way through it. Big modulation at the end taking us home. Great tremelo guitar throughout.  Incidentally who was singing for Brent's version of Faster Pussycat? Kurt Frolich, our engineer and co-producer. Funny ol' world innit?

They're sweepin' up your street of dreams
And your town of tinsel has rusted to a broken tin machine
And all the ones that called your name
Call for the next one to take your place while you fade away

You shoulda been kinder on your way up
Now you've fallen down

Big time superstar
Your autograph's worth nothing now
What went up has surely come down
Big time superstar
You had it good, you had it all
Where are you now?

Haunted by the ghost of you
That no one remembers
Replaced by something shiny, something new
And the wheel keeps turning just the same
I hope it was worth it
The price of fame for ol' Whatshisname

Don't you know that they only built you up
Just to knock you down

Chorus

You threw it all away
Nothing lasts forever
Life is short but life is long
You threw them all away
And the ones you thought that mattered
Well, where are they now?

Chorus