Pele
As a kid, I was really into soccer. I remember it was either soccer or music. I remember the day that I chose music and gave my soccer up. I played as a full back and I loved it. Perhaps someday I will return to my soccer roots. . . I wrote an album about it.
But my point has nothing to do with the album Soccer.
When I was a kid and all into soccer, I went to soccer camp and one day when it was raining and we couldn't go out and practice, we sat around and watched old Pele clips. Pele inspired me. Those clips of his ability and especially this picture, are drilled into my mind as the definition of a soccer great.
This memory somehow struck me many, many, years later when I was living on Bear street. I wrote Arantes do Nascimento. . . Pele.
