From
Ed's sweet, tingling, opening
riff, the rest of "Lucky" was
generated. "I remember fiddling
around in the sound check,"
he says. "[We] were in Japan-
and putting together a different
pedal order and actually hitting
the strings above the nut on
the headstock. The pedals that
I did it with, and the delay
that was going on. It was one
of those moments -'Yeah, this
is pretty cool'" From here,
"Lucky" was made into what the
band considers a "happy" song,
or at least as happy a song
as they are capable of creating.
An identical version, which
can be found on both the Help!
compilation and the Help! EP,
also appears on OK Computer.
This wasn't the plan: the band
did try to remix the track for
the third album but found they
couldn't improve on it.
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