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This is the first album song where the agile beast himself, drummer Matt Helders, takes over the lead vocals.
Turner explained the process behind this song in his 5-10-15-20 interview with Pitchfork:
I read this story about Iggy Pop where he said there was a TV show he used to watch when he was young, and the guy would ask kids to write letters into the show, and the letters had to be less than 25 words– and he applied that to writing “No Fun”. So, since we always do songs with a thousand words, we thought we should try one that had less than 30, which turned out to be “Brick by Brick”. But I got the drummer to sing it because it seemed like the right thing to do.
According to the Brick By Brick Songfacts, the Monkeys wrote the song in a Miami bar.
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