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Albert Brooks - Near The Beginning Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Charlie Van Dyke]
Top 40 radio – for years, it's dominated America's ears the way an overbearing mother dominates her child: with tight playlists, frequent contests, and a large male staff. Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz.

[Peter Tork]
Albert came to us and asked, "Uh, how do get a Top 40 hit?"

[Micky Dolenz]
Heh, we both laughed.

[Tork]
Yeah. [both laugh] Yeah, right, I said, "Look, Albert, you can't really sing."

[Dolenz]
"You can't play guitar."

[Tork]
"You know, you've got no Top 40 skills. Why don't you try to make one of those gimmick records?"

[Dolenz]
"One of those, uh, flying saucer things where they use piecеs of all the big hits and then write somе dumb story around them?"

[David Braun]
Well, Albert waltzed into my office one day—
[Van Dyke]
Superstar lawyer David Braun.

[Braun]
—and then he gave me this idea that he had for building this story around gold records. I hated to be the one to prick that balloon. But I had to point out to him that the problem was enormous: he had to get releases from the artists, permission from the record companies, mechanical—uh—licenses from the publishers. And even after he got all those things, it would cost him a fortune in royalties! And I said, "Albert, for what this thing's gonna cost ya, you might as well go out and make your own—"

[Albert Brooks]
"—gold records!" And he thought he was joking, but that's exactly what I did. And I'll tell you something, the—the whole "outer space" concept is so freaky, it's so far out, I really don't think Top 40 stations are even gonna realize these aren't so-called "real hits". And, uh, whatever royalties this thing does earn—[huff]—at least the checks are gonna be coming to a "Mr. A. Brooks" and not some schmuck I don't even know!