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"Bird On A Wire is a classic in my book. Leonard has a home on an island in Greece called Hydra, and from his living room, there's an electric wire you can see, and that's where he got the idea. He just happened to mention that one night because me and a friend that was a road manager for him all over the world, Bill Donovan, we went and stayed a couple of weeks there but Leonard just went there to open the house up and then he split for Montreal and we stayed there by ourselves, he said, 'see that wire, that's the wire right there.' When I was their there still was not a gasoline engine on the island anywhere." In 1990, the title was used for a movie starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. Aaron Neville sang the version used in the movie. Joe Cocker, Willie Nelson, Tim Hardin and Johnny Cash have all recorded versions of this.

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