View this link:

http://blog.fragmentsofcale.net/2008/08/heartbreak-hotel.html

A very interesting look at the evolution of a song over at Fragments of a Cale Season. This song goes through the wringer.

[S]omewhere between playing mit der Polizei and coming out of his lost years, in the less innocent days of good friends, fast women, lots of drugs, and possibly too many studio recordings… he started playing it on solo piano. And no more was this man kidding around.

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