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Monkey

Monkey

Month of September 2017:

Monkey

  • Band: August Darnell
  • Writers: August Darnell
  • Publisher: La Bande Son

I wrote Monkey for a film called LE GRANDE VOYAGE, circa 1994. The song was originally called JUNKIE. Completely different lyric, obviously. The director of the film, Fred Hedangue, suggested a song about monkies, since we had encountered so many of them in our journey. I reluctantly returned to my hut in the Australian outback and changed the words. I am glad I did because Monkey is a far better song than JUNKIE.

Notwithstanding all of the above, the song was not included in the film. Such is life in the fast lane. But at least I got to hang out with some Aborigines.

August Darnell

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