Mark King

On The Level (IM&RW 1991)

IM - I noticed that you played the little guitar motif from Lessons in Love verbatim. How do you feel after having had so much freedom with your own band about sticking to something somebody else has done?

"They figured that people heard that not as a solo, but just as a melody, so they said ‘play that melody'. So I do. But on all the other solos I do what I want. Mark was the only person I have ever done a session for who actually let me do what I do. He just said, ‘play a solo there' and practically whatever I did was acceptable to him which was great and he didn't try to get me to do anything that would have alienated me from the music."