A story that Robin Gibb from The Bee Gees told when he was asked how the
band wrote the song “I Started A Joke”:
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"The melody to this one was heard aboard a British Airways Vickers Viscount about a hundred miles from Essen.
It was one of those old four engine 'prop' jobs, that seemed to drone the passenger into a sort of hypnotic trance, only with this it was different.
The droning, after a while, appeared to take the form of a tune, which mysteriously sounded like a church choir.
So it was decided!
We accosted the pilot, forced him to land in the nearest village and there; in a small pub, we finished the lyrics [with Barry].
Actually, it wasn't a village, it was the city, and it wasn't a pub, it was a hotel, and we didn't force the pilot to land in a field... but why ruin a perfectly good story?"
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I share how to harness the power of stories in the April issue of Secret Coach Club, which ships off to the printer in a few hours.
This month's issue has a lot more packed inside it, and also includes a bonus transcript of an interview that I did with Brandon Marshall Havener about sharing your message to the world unapologetically (this isn't available anywhere else, only to Secret Coach Club subscribers).
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