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2 unusual facts about The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse


The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are normal and we want our freedom", a reference to a line from the 1963 play "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade," or "Marat/Sade" a line also quoted in "The Red Telephone", a song by American band, Love, on their 1967 album "Forever Changes".

The American version of this album was retitled Urban Spaceman and added their U.K. hit single "I'm the Urban Spaceman".



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