As half of musical duo Was (Not Was), David Was has proven himself a songwriter with an acute ear for a catchy refrain and a proclivity for poetic divergence. Wheel spoke to him from his LA home, listening with enraptured glee as he spun tales of orphic inventiveness about dry cleaning, Greek tragedy, Bob Dylan, Paula Abdulisation, musical theatre, the helter-skelter world of song writing, and almost everything else.
