EXCLU: “For me, a theme that I explore sometimes, and I definitely explored lyrically in ‘Black Parade’ was the triumph of the human spirit over darkness, over tragedy,' My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way said.
, features the longtime music writer interviewing a wide array of music legends—from Carly Simon and The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson to TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and U2’s The Edge—about the stories behind classic songs that have reached anthem status.
We rehearsed it, obviously, but we hadn’t played it that much. We just played it however many times we had to practice before we did it. So you gotta picture this. We get to this building, it’s a real high-rise building, we go up there, all the gear is up there. Now, there’s this little very short kind of stage thing that I think they built, and they had taken the glass away from the edges, ‘cause they didn’t like the way it looked. So they had removed the barriers to keep you from falling off.
As Way looks back on the recording of the song, it was not always a smooth process until the idea of the parade came into play. “It was actually a really hard song to record, because we were, in some ways, so used to the original version that when it came time to start changing things, it was just very difficult. And nobody knew if it was the right direction, and things like that,” he says. “But then I started to envision this parade, and so then I wanted to bring in certain elements.
“For me, a theme that I explore sometimes, and I definitely explored lyrically in ‘Black Parade’ was the triumph of the human spirit over darkness, over tragedy. Self-actualization has been a theme in a lot of the lyrics that I’ve written, kind of becoming what you’re supposed to become, evolving, changing, cocooning into your next form,” Way says. “And I just talked about this with Billy [Corgan] in that interview we did.
That familiarity, triumph of the spirit and punk wall of sound Way and his band mates conveyed in the song made the deeply personal and uplifting track one of the most unlikely sports anthems of all time, at least for a short period, when the L.A. Kings hockey team adopted the song, a flattering choice, even for New Jersey Devils fans, as Way recalls.“That was interesting. We were very flattered by that. They started to use ‘Black Parade’ and we had heard about it.
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