Don't need a gun
| Don't need a gun | |
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| Billy Idol | |
| publication | 1986 |
| length | 6:15 (album version) 4:00 (single edit) Maxisingles : 7:05 ( Melt Down Mix ) 9:11 ( Beyond Melt Down Mix ) |
| Genre (s) | New wave |
| Author (s) | Billy Idol |
| Publisher (s) | Chrysalis Records |
| album | Whiplash smile |
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Don't Need a Gun is the title of a song written by Billy Idol . It was released in 1986 as the second single from the album Whiplash Smile .
background
The album's first single was the song To Be a Lover , which reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 . In Germany and Great Britain it came in 28th and 22nd respectively.
Billy Idol had written Don't Need a Gun by himself and at the time of the record was also convinced that he should be the only songwriter for the album anyway :
Whiplash Smile had a lot of potential. It should have been a worthy successor of Rebel Yell , an album featuring a real band working, rehearsing, and recording songs collaboratively. But I insisted that I should be the only one writing songs (...).
“ Whiplash Smile had a lot of potential. It should have been a worthy successor to Rebel Yell , the album of a real band that works on, rehearses and records songs together. But I insisted that I should be the only one who writes songs (...). "
From Do not Need a Gun two were remixes made and maxi-single released: The Melt Down Mix was Billy Idol, Steve Stevens made and Freddy Bastone, who later published Beyond Melt Down Mix was the responsibility of the US producer Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero. This maxi single also contained a dub mix of the song as the b-side , while the other was an a cappella version of the song.
swell
- Billy Idol: Dancing With Myself ; Autobiography, Simon & Schuster 2014, ISBN 978-1-4516-2850-0 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Don't Need a Gun at Discogs
- Don't Need a Gun on YouTube , accessed June 29, 2020.