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Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Album artwork for Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind.
If You Could Read My Mind (1970)
Gordon Lightfoot
F♯
E
D
C♯
B
A
E
E
E
D
D
D
D
C♯
C♯
C♯
C♯
B
C♯
A
Album artwork for Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf.
Hungry Like the Wolf (1982)
Duran Duran
F♯
E
D♯
C♯
B
A
do
E
do
E
do
E
do
D
do
D
do
D
do
C♯
do
C♯
do
C♯
do
B
do
B
do
B
do
A
do
B
do
B

These songs share

  • A wordless staggered scalar descent that punctuates a section, in both cases using the notes E, D, C#, B, and A
  • On VH1 Storytellers (2001), Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran told the audience he was "obsessed by" Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind when he was a child, and that it inspired two Duran Duran songs. In the Ask Katy online fan Q&A, he elaborated: "just the doo doos on Hungry Like the Wolf."