Instant karma!

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Instant karma! (We All Shine On)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono with The Plastic Ono Band
publication 0February 6, 1970 ( UK ) ,
February 20, 1970 ( US )
length 3 min 22 s
Genre (s) skirt
Author (s) John Lennon
Producer (s) Phil Spector

Instant karma! (We All Shine On) ( English Instant Karma! (We all shine) ) is a song of the British rock musician John Lennon , originally in 1970 with Who Has Seen the Wind? was released as a single by his wife Yoko Ono . They received musical support from their Plastic Ono Band .

history

Instant karma! is particularly noticeable because of his extremely short creative duration of only about one day. Lennon said in an interview: "I wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch and we're putting it out for dinner." ("I wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we put it out for dinner.") After composing it on a piano in the morning on January 27, 1970, Lennon booked Abbey Road Studios for 7pm. Besides him on the piano, only George Harrison on guitar, Klaus Voormann on bass and Alan White on drums were involved in the main recording . The session was over after ten takes . Lennon spontaneously asked the then very popular music producer Phil Spector , who was in town with Harrison that day, to produce the recordings. After another three hours of overdubbing , Spector began his work and quickly gave Lennon a result that was satisfactory for him.

“[…] Phil [Spector] came in, he said, 'How do you want it?' I said, 'You know, 1950 but now.' And he said 'Right,' and 'boom' […]. He [Phil Spector] doesn't fuss about with fuckin 'stereo or all the bullshit. Does it sound all right? [...] If it sounds good to you as a layman or as a human, take it. Don't bother whether this is like that or the quality of this, just take it. "

"[...] Phil [Spector] came in, he said 'How do you want it?' I said, 'You know, like 1950 only today.' And he said 'alright' and 'boom' […]. He [Phil Spector] doesn't make such a fuss about that damn stereo and all that shit. Does it sound good? [...] If it sounds good to you as a layperson or as a person, take it. Do not be bothered by this or that, or the quality of that, just take it. "

- John Lennon, 1970

Then made Spector four different stereo - mixes at what the last one in the UK was used for the single. Another mix was created by him in Los Angeles a few days later . This was used for the US single. As with Cold Turkey , the single edition had the PLAY LOUD note printed on the A side. On the B-side with the Ono composition Who Has Seen the Wind? was PLAY QUIET in the British version and PLAY SOFT in the US version .

Due to the great chart success of the single John Lennon with Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band remaining in the telecast was Top of the Pops the British broadcaster BBC invited. A total of four recordings were made for this, two of which were ultimately broadcast. It was also Instant Karma! played at the benefit concert One to One for the benefit of children with disabilities. The recording of the afternoon performance appeared on the 1986 live album Live in New York City .

occupation

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 7th (26 weeks) 26th
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 4th (8 weeks) 8th
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 9 (6 weeks) 6th
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) 5 (9 weeks) 9
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 3 (13 weeks) 13

Aftermath

Instant karma! is one of Lennon's most important compositions and, in addition to its re-releases, also has numerous cover versions on almost every best-of compilation by Lennon . The groups Tokio Hotel , U2 and Duran Duran recorded their interpretation for the album Make Some Noise - The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur . This album can also be found under the alternative title Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur . There are also versions of Hilly Michaels, Midnight Oil and the British punk rock band The Adventures .

The title of Stephen King's book The Shining comes from the line “We all shine on…” of the song. King initially wanted to call this The Shine , but only later realized that the word shine had been used as a derogatory term for black people in earlier times.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instant Karma! on history.com ( memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English). Retrieved December 26, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.history.com
  2. ↑ Recordings from Instant Karma
  3. ↑ a b c Instant Karma! on beatlesbible.com (English). Retrieved December 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Lennon Remembers, Jann S. Wenner
  5. ↑ Picture gallery for the UK single (English). Retrieved December 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ Picture gallery for the US single (English). Retrieved December 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  8. ↑ Instant Karma! on songfacts.com (English). Retrieved December 23, 2012.