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About This Track
The single was one of the band’s biggest hits in the United States, peaking at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single version of the song was edited down to 3:27 for American pop radio airplay, although many stations played the full version of the song. “Roundabout” peaked at #22 on the Dutch Top 40.[2]
Anderson has said that the song’s cryptic lyrics simply came to him while driving to the studio one early morning. This explains the lyric “Call it morning driving through the sound and even in the valley”.
Howe’s use of octave harmonics on the acoustic guitar introduction of the song and the instrumental break in the middle, plucking four notes that compose an Em chord on an open guitar, has become one of his signature pieces of guitar work.
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