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“Overture”
Image:QuiksilverRoomCover.jpg
Song by Quicksilver
Album Room
Released November 16, 2020
Recorded March - November 2020
Genre Progressive rock
Psychedelic rock
Length 2:00
Label Sony BMG Records
Writer May/Gibson
Producer Peter May, Dan Gibson, Keith Young, A. N. Other
Room track listing
“Overture”
(1 of Disc 1)		 "Sniffing the Flour"
(2 of Disc 1)


"Overture" is a song by the French Canadian rock band Quicksilver released in 2020. It is the first track on the album Room. It is 2 minutes and ?? seconds long. The track is in fact an overture: it serves as the instrumental introduction to a dramatic and instrumental composition. The lyrics was by Peter May. The music by the latter and Dan Gibson (Peter May did 60% of it and Dan Gibson did 40% of it).

Contents

[edit] Composition

The song first starts with a fade in keyboard ambiance. Then acoustic guitar and vocals appear. It features a slight acoustic ballad with organ and mellotron background in which the narrator (actually Peter May) tells the story of John and his father's death. Suddenly, one hears the keyboards volume getting harder and the drums appears. The elctric guitar appears and does a solo. At the end, the ballad comes back and fades out, leaving keyboards going through the next song.

[edit] Plot

As all other songs in Room, the song tells a portion of the story of John Hatkins. The song features the latter, born in 1997 in New York. He lives with his father because his parents are divorced. In 2001, his father dies in the World Trade Center attacks. John do not understands because he is young, but he wants to know why his father does not come back.

[edit] Film version

In the film adaptation, John is four years old and he plays with his toys while his father makes supper for him and John. Another day, his father goes at work and tells to a man that he works at the World Trade Center. The scene changes and shows John on the floor of the living room with his toys looking at the television left open. He sees the World Trade attacks and the planes crashing on the towers.

[edit] Personnel

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