I wrote 1973 with a man named Mark Batson, who is a really great guy; we wrote it in New York in Jimmy Hendrix's old studio. Mark Batson comes from a different background musically and he writes with [Dr.] Dre, who lives out here in Los Angeles, but we got together and messed around on a musical level and I had some ideas about something that was more up-tempo.
I had been living on a Spanish island where there is a lot of dance music in the first place, where I've been trying to figure out that vibe. Then lyrically it's a kind of nostalgic moment about the great celebration of shared times and nights out on the town. In 1973� I wasn't even alive then, I don't know why [I named it that], it must have just rhymed with something.
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