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In a live musical performance, a false start is an intro to a song that is quickly cut short to begin another song. One famous example is Elvis Costello playing "Radio Radio" on a television broadcast of Saturday Night Live.
False starts, mistakes, or imitations of such, are occasionally included by musicians on finalised albums. The Beatles' songs "Dig a Pony" and the North American version of "I'm Looking Through You" include them. Electric Light Orchestra's "Rockaria!", Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger, "Tangerine" by Led Zeppelin, Monkees song "Magnolia Simms", and James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" are other examples. In a YouTube episode of "Minutes with Murray", Murray Cook played two false starts on the Maton electric guitar while playing "Eagle Rock".
False starts are even used for sign languages by deaf people and their interpreters' speeches. For example in a 1987 videotape called "Sign Me a Story", Linda Bove (from Sesame Street) introduces herself but realizing that she's deaf, she needs help from interpreter/voice-over Elaine Bromka and tells her that maybe some people didn't understand what she just said and Elaine says "Why don't we start again?" ]
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