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"The Selfish Giant" is a song recorded by English recording artist and songwriter and Blur frontman & Gorillaz creator, Damon Albarn, from his debut solo studio album ''Everyday Robots''. The track features Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes. The track is produced by both Albarn and Richard Russell, whom Albarn has previously worked with on Bobby Womack's comeback album ''The Bravest Man in the Universe'' and on the DRC Music album ''Kinshasa One Two''. ==Background== On 18 January 2014, the Warner Music Store was updated to include Damon Albarn's new album and its name was revealed – ''Everyday Robots''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Everyday Robots" – 7" vinyl % HD bundle )〕 The deluxe edition of the album came packaged with a DVD of Albarn performing a few album tracks live at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. The DVD was filmed on 3 December 2013. On the next day, the album's information was removed from the website, which made many believe it was not supposed to have leaked so soon. In a January 2014 interview with ''Rolling Stone'', Albarn revealed that Natasha Khan will appear on the track "The Selfish Giant" as a "ghostly echo", and that Brian Eno had collaborated on the album's final track. Albarn said in an interview: "I wrote the songs, but Richard Russell was a fantastic editor and did a lot of the atmospheric stuff, so in a sense it's not entirely my record. It is my narrative, and my voice and my songs. I started off giving Richard a lot of songs, 60 or 60-plus – he had the editorship."〔name="rollingstone.com"〕 Speaking of her contribution to ''Everyday Robots'', Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan said: "If I could go back and tell the 15-year-old me that I'd just sang with Damon for his new record, she'd probably wet her pants with excitement, I had such a massive crush on him ()". In 2013, Khan had supported Albarn's band Blur at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Throwing YOU the latest Blur, Gorillaz and Damon Albarn news )〕 In 2014, Albarn revealed that the inspiration for the song came from Blur's visit to the Scottish town of Dunoon in 1995 and a view he had of the Holy Loch. "It was a beautiful misty evening," he remembers.〔("Damon Albarn on how Dunoon inspired debut album" ) – ''The Scotsman'', 26 April 2014〕 "There was a single submarine in the loch – why it was there I don't know. I had a very strong image of the loch and submarines and walking down the main drag in Dunoon after the gig, going to someone's house for a party, and a song came out of it." The song includes the line "walking down Argyll Street when the evening colours call".〔 Albarn also stated: "Now every time I sing "The Selfish Giant" I go back to that night in Dunoon, which was a really great night, a fantastic night." When asked if he would consider playing solo in Scotland, he replied: "I’d love to. Maybe Dunoon? Then I can walk down Argyll Street again."〔 It is the second-longest song on the entire album, behind "You and Me". The song contains a sample of "The Selfish Giant", composed by Kenny Clayton, written by Oscar Wilde and performed by Robert Morley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots – album info )〕 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「The Selfish Giant (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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