Word: motorway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first long look at America. Thematically, the album combines a look at America from the point of view of the touring rock star, with a look at the America symbolized by Hollywood of the forties. Davies stresses the perpetual motion of the tour throughout the album, on songs like "Motorway," in lines like "I'm a Maximum Consumption, super-grade performer-High powered machine," or "Motorway food is the worst in the world,-You've never eaten food like you've eaten on the Motorway." He falls back on Hollywood for relief, for a perfect world, "Nobody's gonna travel...
From Portobello Road I walked up an alleyway on the underside of a huge elevated highway and then turned left into St. Ervan's Road, which stretched from underneath the motorway to a field of mud and the beginnings of a housing development on the other end. Barrie's was number 39, but he'd warned me not to look for a number: halfway down on the right, pink door, he'd said. I passed a kid on a rickety bicycle, a man in an undershirt fixing a beat-up old car. The houses, all built together, were varying shades...