And the song Hallelujah, is that a very personal song? It's got a real special nature.

Well, that was kind of just around the time that we signed.

That was one of the last songs that I wrote before we signed the deal.

And at that point, I'd been...

I'd been on a sort of tour of squats and bedsits and things and now I'd been kicked out of the squat, well that wasn't a squat, that was a bed sit in Finsbury Park.

This mad hippie woman called Polly and she was, she threw a pot of hot water at me one night and I thought this is it, I'm out of here.

So I left there and I knew this heavy metal guitarist, don't let me commence, I knew this heavy metal guitarist who had a squat in the tower block in White City council estate and he said I could come and stay in his spare room and his flat was completely black every there's everything in it except for the floorboards which were like blood red you know and um and I lived in this flat and uh it was high up in the in the tower block and I looking over the west way and so at night when the lights come on the west way wow you'd see all the cars a million cars hurry home that was the view outside of my my thing and around the time i went to see steve stevie wonder who was playing at uh wembley arena And I went to see this kid and I was watching Stevie Wonder and I was just thinking, wow, man, every word, every note, every word's like a prayer.

So, you know, for about a year, you had international success, one of the biggest British bands, but then you had the 1988 Brit Awards, the infamous 1988 Brit Awards.