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KINGDOM OF DESIRE

This album was released in three different versions:
1. Without "Kick down the walls"
2. With "Kick down the walls"
3. With "Kick down the walls" and "Little Wing (live 1990)"

In a japanese magazine called "Young guitar" dated november 1992, Luke talks about "Kick down the walls":

INTERVIEWER:
You took two songs by Danny Korchmar on this album.
LUKE:
I've known Danny for a long time. He always said to me "why are you doing something that you don't want to do?". One day, Jeff came to the rest of the band saying "this is a song we must do!" and he made us listen to "kick down the walls". The original version was more rough, but we made it into our own version. The song is interesting in the sense that it was written about the streets of L.A., and it was written even before the L.A. riot. My house is on the hill, so I remember "overseeing" the fire and the riot from high above.....
INTERVIEWER:
Danny produced "Kick down the walls".
LUKE:
for this song, Danny himself came to us and said he wanted to produce it, so we had him produce the song. That's why it sounds different from the rest of the album. For me, it's a song that I like the least...but that's a secret to danny (laughs).

Thanks to Mitz Niwa for the translation