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"Star for a Week (Dino)" is a single by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley, released as a promotional single in 1993 from his third solo album ''Yes You Can'', which was released in Europe in 1992 and in the UK in 1993 around the same time as the single. It would be the only single to be released from the album after the time of its release, although the opening track "Irresistible" had been released as a single in 1985, then in 1986 as a re-recorded version (which appeared on the ''Yes You Can'' album) and as a remixed single in 1991 as well. ==Background== "Star for a Week (Dino)" was written by Harley and produced by Harley and engineer Matt Butler. The song was not eligible to make any chart appearances however many fans regard the song as one of Harley's finest. Originally the song was first performed live in 1979 at Harley's sold out Hammersmith Odeon concert. For many years after, Harley would almost always perform the track at each live concert where it gained a reputation. The song, like much of Harley's released 1980s output, was due to be released on a full studio album under the title ''El Gran Senor'', however the album was never released and "Star for a Week (Dino)" was re-recorded for the ''Yes You Can'' album years later. Like much of the ''Yes You Can'' album, the song was recorded and remixed at The White House Studios, Bures, Suffolk, England. For the professionally filmed performance of the song live in 1989 at Brighton, Harley revealed the song's meaning at the start of the track. He stated ''"This is a song with a story which for me illustrates the undying, relentless loyalty and faith which a mother has for her son. About nine or ten years ago, there's this boy in Norfolk called Dino, who was running around with a shotgun, holding up some post offices. He did this for several weeks - he got caught eventually, red handed. I remember the cops said to him; 'what'd you do it for? You've never done anything wrong before in your life'. And he said 'I just wanted to be somebody, I just wanted to be a star for a week or two'. Well he was that, it was on the national news. Little did he know his mum said 'It wasn't my Dino, couldn't be Dino, couldn't be Dino. He lives for his motorcycle, he wouldn't do such a thing, couldn't be Dino.' Caught red handed, he confessed; 'My mum still thinks I got a day job'."''〔Live performance footage on "Steve Harley + Cockney Rebel Live" DVD from Odyssey - 2012〕 During privately filmed footage of Harley performing the song live at Athens in Greece during 2011, Harley spoke of the song before the start of the track, stating ''"This song is about two young men. They were in the late teenage in the mid/late '70s and they went on the run in the UK, near close to where I live now, in East Anglia. And they had a shotgun - they were holding up and raiding small post offices and newspaper shops - little shops that just sold newspapers and sweets and cigarettes. They were raiding these shops and terrifying mostly elderly, innocent people who ran these shops. And I listened - I was trained as a journalist when I left school and I still travel the world with a notebook and a pen. So I wrote down all the stuff that this story was about and I took a lot of the original words that people used in their press reports, and I wrote them all down. The boy was from a Greek family - the leader of the gang of two. He was called Dino. They spoke to his mother one day, and he was a well bought up boy, and they said to her on the television when he was hiding in the woods - they were living very rough in a camp in the woods hiding from the police for three weeks. And the newspapers - the TV news interviewed his mother in Cambridge, and they asked her what he was doing, why he was doing this? And she said, she actually said to them 'I don't know - I think he just wants to be somebody. He just wants to be someone.' They asked 'what do you mean by that?' and she said 'He just wants to be a star for a week or two', and I'm writing it down, thinking oh this is great. And I wrote it all down, and she wrote me a chorus - his mum, and the rest of it was the story I got. I used to say years ago when I sang this song on stage, I'd say that I borrowed some of the lyrics from other people. It's not entirely true - as I get older my conscience has got the better of me - and I have to confess I didn't borrow them at all - I stole them."'' In a 1998 Sheffield Concert Review by Q Magazine, the writer Peter Kane spoke of the song, stating ''"To make sure this particular evening goes with a swing, it certainly helps that the audience could have handpicked that very afternoon from the streets of Sheffield. At least half of them seem to know all the words to everything, not just the familiar old stuff like "Judy Teen" and "Mr. Soft", but even the comparatively recent The Last Time I saw You and Star For A Week (Dino). They sing along whether encouraged to do so or not. Mostly not. It's like stumbling into a private function with its own mystifying rules and rituals."'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star for a Week (Dino)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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