(Just Like) Starting Over

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(Just Like) Starting Over
John Lennon
publication October 24, 1980
length 3:56
Genre (s) Pop song
Author (s) John Lennon
album Double fantasy
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
(Just Like) Starting Over
  DE 4th December 15, 1980 (24 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/15/1981 (20 weeks)
  CH 1 December 14, 1980 (13 weeks)
  UK 1 11/08/1980 (15 weeks)
  US 1 11/01/1980 (22 weeks)

(Just Like) Starting Over is a song by John Lennon from 1980, written by him and produced in cooperation with Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas. It was released on October 24, 1980 as a pre- single release from the album Double Fantasy . On the B-side was the piece Kiss Kiss Kiss, composed and sung by Yoko Ono .

history

(Just Like) Starting Over was Lennon's first single after a five-year retreat from the music business. He developed the piece from several unfinished compositions, from which he finally put the song together. Two of these fragments had the working titles My Life and Don't Be Crazy . Lennon developed the stanzas from them. Another part was initially called The Worst Is Over , which later became the chorus . The piece represented Lennon's return to his musical roots, rock 'n' roll of the 1950s.

"It had the Fifties-ish sound because I have never really written a song that sounded like that period, although that was my period, the music I identified with."

"It [the song] had that fifties sound because I had never written a piece that sounded like a song from that time, even though that was my time, the music I identified with."

- John Lennon

While recording, Lennon referred to the song as the "Elvis Orbison" number to describe the style he envisioned. One inspiration was the song Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel) by Roy Orbison . Borrowings from Elvis Presley and the aforementioned Orbison can also be seen in the singing . The bell that rings in the song is a conscious reference to the somber bells that started the song Mother in 1970 .

Originally the song was called Starting Over , but the song was added (Just Like) because a song by Tammy Wynette was called Starting Over .

successes

After its release in October 1980, the single initially only reached the bottom of the top 10 in the British and US charts. It was ranked 9th in the UK and 7th in the US, the highest ranking. After John Lennon's murder on December 8, 1980, sales soared and the single became a number one hit not only in the United States and Great Britain, but also in Ireland , Australia , Austria and Switzerland , among others .

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sources chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ^ A b John Blaney: Lennon and McCartney - Together Alone: ​​A Critical Discography of their Solo Work . Jawbone, 2007. pp. 140 f.
  3. ↑ Johnny Rogan: Lennon . London: Calidore, 2006. p. 172.
  4. ↑ Philip Norman: John Lennon . London: Harper, 2009. p. 796.