| "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" | ||||
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| Single by Super Furry Animals | ||||
| from the album Radiator | ||||
| Released | 12 May 1997 | |||
| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Creation | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Super Furry Animals | |||
| Producer(s) | Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals | |||
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"Hermann ♥'s Pauline" is the sixth single by Super Furry Animals and the first to be released from their second album Radiator. It reached #26 on the UK Singles Chart on its release in May 1997.[1]
Hermann and Pauline are the names of the parents of Albert Einstein, and the song refers to them and the young Albert. The song also mentions Marie Curie and Ernesto Guevera. The song was inspired by the pitstops that the band would take at motorway service stations whilst out on tour, where Gruff Rhys would peruse through bitesized biographies about famous people, such as They Died Too Young book series.
The band had trouble playing the track live and stopped playing it altogether until the Phantom Power tour when they realised that trying to play along to a click track was the cause of the problem.[2]
- ^ Roberts, David, ed. (2003). British Hit Singles (16th ed.). Guinness World Records Ltd. p. 452. ISBN 0-85112-190-X.
- ^ "Bunf interview". BBC Wales. 2003. Retrieved 2010-01-06.