Jane’s Addiction Been Caught Stealing
Sep 14, 2021
4 minutes
Words: Dave Everley
The voice that introduces the song that invented the 1990s wasn’t a human one. It belonged to Annie, a dog picked up from a rescue centre by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell. It was Annie’s rhythmic barking that ushered in Been Caught Stealing, the track that would give the alt. rock visionaries their biggest hit yet.
“She was quite needy, so I brought her down to the studio that day rather than leave her at home,” Farrell told in 2000. “I’m singing in the booth with the headphones on, and Annie gets all excited and starts going: ‘Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!’ The fact that she ended up on the track was
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