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RE: Om mani padme hum.

From: "Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@sitgbsd1.telecom.com.au>
Date: Fri, 10 May 96 09:33:00 EST
Subject: RE: Om mani padme hum.
To: "rec.music.gaffa" <love-hounds@gryphon.com>
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>Date: Thursday, 9 May 1996 6:54PM

 Dan wrote:

>Not that long someone wrote in and said that Kate used the Om mani padme
>hum mantra and admitted to not knowing what it meant when she used it. I
>would be interested to know when she used it or if it was on an album. My
>God (Kate). If word got around that she used a Buddhist mantra...

 It was incorporated into the song Strange Phenomena from the album The
 Kick Inside. The decision to use the mantra apparently came sometime
 between composing the song and recording it for the album, as the demo
 version has just vocalisations at the end of each chorus.


 TSB