“Where Did All the Love Go?” by Kasabian

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Kasabian's third album, yielded "Where Did All the Love Go?" as its second official single in August 2009, and it's Sergio Pizzorno's song top to bottom: the guitarist wrote the words and music and co-produced it with Dan the Automator, who also mixed it. Jim Abbiss recorded it, Marc Senesac engineered, and Wired Strings play the strings.

Pizzorno tied it to sitting at home and seeing yet another kid stabbed while everyone around was frightened, and to kids growing up too fast, buried in news channels, the internet and social networking and barely leaving their bedrooms. Underneath, he said, it's hunting for a romantic picture of life, back when people looked out for one another. Charles Mehling directed the video, drawing on Kenneth Anger films such as Scorpio Rising, on Busby Berkeley and on French cabaret.

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