Zajímalo mě, jak si ten song vedl u kritiků a narazil jsem na celkem obsáhlou stránku na Wikipedii, která je celé skladbě věnována:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_to_Tell
Nebudu komentovat ty pozitivní kritiky, ale dovedlo mě to i ke jménu spoluautora skladby, Patricka Leonarda. A zaujalo mě, co řekl:
"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall – that's what I grew up with and that's what I dreamed of doing one day," he recalled in 1992. "I was a big Gentle Giant fan. I was a huge Jethro Tull fan. But I had to feed my children and heat my house, so I wrote some songs with a little girl who became extremely popular. It's really that simple."
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