How did “Walk Like An Egyptian come to be?
It’s so different, weird and cool. Thank you. I agree. David Kahne was our A&R guy at Columbia. I was sitting in his office one day, and he said, “I want to play you this song.” It was Marti Jones, Don Dixon’s wife, singing it, and it was written by this guy Liam Sternberg, who had grown up with Chrissie Hynde in Ohio. And we got Gary Weis, who had made the Rutles movie with Eric Idle, to direct the video. We knew it was cool, but we had no idea it would take off the way it did. We were really surprised. Columbia stayed with it for a very slow ride up the charts. But once it got to number one, it stayed there. MAGNET: Why did you move to L.A. from New York, Matthew? Sweet: I came out here to record Altered Beast with Richard Dashut, and Dashut severely turned me on to L.A. He was like this magic leprechaun that showed me all the groovy, classic L.A. factors. He took me to all the different areas. He showed me the old clubs on Sunset Strip and took me by where Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buck
