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The Seduction of Claude Debussy is a 1999 concept album by Art of Noise, featuring a line-up of Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, Paul Morley, and Lol Creme. Also appearing on the album are John Hurt, soprano Sally Bradshaw, Rakim, and Donna Lewis.

The group blended the music of groundbreaking French impressionist composer Claude Debussy with drum and bass, opera, hip hop, jazz, and narration, and described the album as "the soundtrack to a film that wasn't made about the life of Claude Debussy…

[sample] 00:00 - I am committed to maintaining law order and stability in our country. I have already given instructions for appropriate steps to be taken to restore and maintain law and order.
[source] - P.W. Botha: (Pieter Willem Botha. Prime minister of South Africa, 1978-84) pledge to "combat turmoil" in South Africa on March 27th 1985.
[sample] 00:39 - Now the fuse is lit.
[source] - Deems Taylor: (1885-1966, composer and music critic) From the LP Mercury MG50054, (Original Scoring) spoken commentary and actual sounds. Story of achieving cannon and bells sounds for the recording, (1955), 1812 Festival Overture, Tchaikovsky.
[sample] 02:58 - Well that wasn't much of a noise. Normally everybody tried to play too safe.
[source] - Deems Taylor: (1885-1966, composer and music critic) From the LP Mercury MG50054, (Original Scoring) spoken commentary and actual sounds. Story of achieving cannon and bells sounds for the recording, (1955), 1812 Festival Overture, Tchaikovsky.
[sample] 03:36 - ...that South Africa consists of a white minority and a black majority.
[source] - P.W. Botha: (Pieter Willem Botha. Prime minister of South Africa, 1978-84) from his "Rubicon" speech Aug 15, 1985.

You don't have to be beautiful
To turn me on
I just need your body baby
From dusk till dawn
You don't need experience
To turn me out
You just leave it all up to me
I'll show you what it's all about

Words like love and happiness
Never seem to stand up baby
When you put 'em to the test yea
You say that your a poet, that you loves a work of art
Well you can't play love by numbers baby gotta play it all by heart
Baby, baby, baby, baby
It happens all the time
How you play me, play me, play me

Debussy didn't believe in god. He didn't believe in the Establishment. He
Didn't believe in bourgeois convention. He didn't believe in Beethoven or
Wagner. He believed in... Debussy.

Debussy understood that a work of art, or an effort to create beauty, was
Always regarded by some people as a personal attack.

He hated to appear in public. Hated to conduct. Hated to play the piano at