The other idea is inspired by the anti-nuclear cartoon book When The Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs.
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While America saw "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" as the first single release from the Songs from the Big Chair LP, "Mothers Talk" was eventually released there as the fourth and final single from the album in April 1986, peaking at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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The strings at the beginning of the song were culled from a Barry Manilow record, while the drum sample around which "Empire Building" is built was lifted from the Simple Minds song "Today I Died Again".
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