Quote related to 'Keep Passing The Open Windows' from 'The Works'

Freddie's composition Keep Passing The Open Windows was originally created for the film Hotel New Hampshire. Anyone who has read the book will remember that the song's title is a phrase of the dialogue which keeps cropping up. The film project had come about when the British film director Tony Richardson heard that the band was in Los Angeles. He approached Freddie and asked him if he would write some tracks for the film. Keep Passing was intended to be the title track of the, as yet unmade, film. After hearing the finished track, although he liked it, Richardson decided that it would be easier – perhaps cheaper? – to use already composed classical music. Cheaper? We were not amused. “I'm not going to waste this track. It's going on the album!”

Peter Freestone; An Intimate Memoir, 2001