Arcade Fire Eager to Record New Album

Arcade Fire isn't resting on its laurels after the commercial and creative success of The Suburbs . Although the Montreal-based band will be spending much of the rest of this year touring Europe, they are itching to get back into the studio.

Photos: Arcade Fire Rock Madison Square Garden

"We're going to experiment this winter," singer Win Butler told the Wall Street Journal . "We're not quite sure what we're doing in February, but January and March we'll probably be off. We've never successfully written or done anything really in a middle of a touring cycle. We're going to see if we can maybe get into a different rhythm besides the tour, tour, tour, rest, rest, rest, tour, tour, tour, rest, rest, rest."

Arcade Fire's Will Butler on Fame, Touring and Not Being Bono [Wall Street Journal]

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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