{"id":169,"date":"2014-11-27T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2014-11-27T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:37:40","slug":"i-need-help-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/i-need-help-song\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Need Help&#8217; song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics never usually flow straight away for me. Usually it&#8217;s the music that comes first and the lyrics come after. However with &#8216;I Need Help&#8217; the lyrics and music came together. The funny thing is that when I wrote it I was actually stuck with some homework\u00a0at the time (I was about 15 years old). I went to play the piano and mess around on it as I do, and thought it would be\u00a0amusing to sing about struggling to do\u00a0homework&#8230; It is the only song I have ever written where the lyrics and music just poured out. Just like that. I quickly got a pen and wrote them down as I went along. At the time it was really funny and I didn&#8217;t take it seriously. I still don&#8217;t really\u00a0but people loved it and remembered us because of that song, so we decided to record it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Need Help (Demo) by OllieDN\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F178720646&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics and music by Oliver Daniel Nicholls (OllieDN) 2009<br \/>\nLead vocals and Bass Guitar by Lewis Spring<br \/>\nPiano and backing vocals by Oliver Daniel Nicholls<br \/>\nLead and Rhythm Guitar by Simon Nicholls<br \/>\nDrums by Leo Petrokofsky<br \/>\nRecorded and Produced by Alex Hehir<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics never usually flow straight away for me. Usually it&#8217;s the music that comes first and the lyrics come after. However with &#8216;I Need Help&#8217; the lyrics and music came together. The funny thing is that when I wrote it I was actually stuck with some homework\u00a0at the time (I was about 15 years old). <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/i-need-help-song\/\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olliedn.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}