Jealous Guy
| Jealous Guy | |
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| John Lennon | |
| publication | September 9, 1971 |
| length | 4:14 |
| Genre (s) | Pop song |
| Author (s) | John Lennon |
| album | Imagine |
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| 1981 | Roxy Music |
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Jealous Guy is a song by John Lennon , written by him and produced in 1971 in cooperation with Yoko Ono and Phil Spector . The melody was written in 1968 when Lennon was still a member of the Beatles . The song appeared on the album Imagine . A single of the song was only released several years after Lennon's death. In the UK, the single was released in 1985 with Going Down on Love - a track taken from the album Walls and Bridges - on the B-side . This single reached number 65 on the UK charts. In the USA, Capitol Records released the single Jealous Guy / Give Peace a Chance in 1988 . This single came to number 80 on the US charts.
history
The melody of the song was created in India as early as 1968 . John Lennon and the other members of the Beatles spent several weeks from February 1968 in the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh . A lecture by the Maharishi about his book Son of the Mother Nature ( German : 'Son of Mother Nature') served both Paul McCartney and John Lennon as inspiration for a song. McCartney composed the piece Mother Nature's Son . Lennon wrote the song I'm Just a Child of Nature , alternatively often referred to as Child of Nature .
“[…] I had a piece called 'I'm just a Child of Nature', which turned into 'Jealous Guy' years later. [...] inspired from the same lecture of Maharishi. "
“I had a track called 'I'm just a Child of Nature' that years later became 'Jealous Guy'. Inspired by the same lecture by the Maharishi. "
The piece was first recorded around May 1968 when the Beatles met in Kinfauns, George Harrison's estate in Esher , to record demo versions of their compositions for their next album. This recording consists of Lennon's vocals, who also sang the second voice via overdub , acoustic guitar and percussion . In this version the text began with the lines On the road to Rishikesh, I was dreaming more or less , the refrain with the lines I'm just a child of nature, I don't need much to set me free .
While McCartney finished his song Mother Nature's Son and it was released in November 1968 on the album The Beatles , Lennon's I'm just a Child of Nature was initially unfinished. On January 2, 1969, at the beginning of the recordings for the Get Back project , which eventually became the album and the film Let It Be , the Beatles made another recording of the piece, which already had a change in the text and with the Row On the road to Marrakesh began. A 24-second excerpt from this version was released in 2003 on the bonus CD of the album Let It Be… Naked . Again the piece was not completed.
When John Lennon began recording the album Imagine in the summer of 1971 , he had written a completely new text for the former I'm just a Child of Nature and adjusted the melody accordingly. If the original text was about the impressions of the stay in India and the realization that he was "just one of Mother Nature's children", Lennon now dealt with his feelings about Yoko Ono and his jealousy .
"The text is clear: I was very jealous and possessive."
The recordings initially took place in Lennon's studio in his titshurst Park estate in Berkshire . In addition to Lennon (vocals and guitar), Nicky Hopkins ( piano ), John Barham ( harmonium ), Alan White ( vibraphone ), Joey Molland (guitar), Tom Evans (guitar), Mike Pinder ( tambourine ) and Klaus Voormann took part in the recording ( Electric bass ) and Jim Keltner ( drums ) with. The strings were recorded in June and July 1971 at Record Plant Studios in New York , where the final overdubs and mixing of all the tracks on the Imagine album took place.
In 1998, an alternate version of Jealous Guy was published on the John Lennon Anthology . This version is the first take of the recordings. The strings are missing on this recording, so the other instruments can be heard more clearly.
Cover versions
After the death of John Lennon on December 8, 1980, the group Roxy Music was on a European tour. When they heard of Lennon's death, they played the piece Jealous Guy for the first time on December 20, 1980 during a concert in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle as an homage to Lennon . After the tour ended, the group recorded a studio version, which was released as a single in February 1981. In the UK and Australia this cover version became a number one hit.
More cover versions
- 1972: Donny Hathaway - on the album Live
- 1972: Claudine Longet - as medley Jealous Guy / Don't Let Me Down Me on the album Let's Spend the Night Together
- 1974: Rod Stewart - on the album Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
- 1977: Frankie Miller - on the album Full House
- 1982: Peter Criss - on the album Let Me Rock You
- 1987: The Shadows - on the Simply Shadows album
- 1995: Collective Soul - on the album Working Class Hero - A Tribute to John Lennon
- 1997: Belinda Carlisle - on the US version of the album A Woman and a Man
- 1998: Jimmy Scott - on the Holding Back the Years album
- 2004: Joe Cocker - on the album Heart & Soul
- 2006: Gavin DeGraw - on the album Friends with Benefits: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 2
- 2007: Youssou N'Dour - on the album Make Some Noise - The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
- 2009: Curtis Stigers - on the album Lost in Dreams
- 2010: Young @ Heart - on the Mostly Live album
- 2012: Roberto Bellarosa - on the album Ma Voie
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
- ↑ a b Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn , Record Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7
- ^ John C. Winn: That Magic Feeling: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966-1970 . New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009. p. 170
- ^ Richie Unterberger: The Unreleased Beatles Music & Film . San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006. p. 197.
- ↑ Doug Sulpy / Ray Schweighardt: Get Back. The Beatles' Let It Be Disaster . London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2003. p. 13.
- ↑ David Sheff: The Ballad of John and Yoko . Höfen: Hannibal, 2002. p. 215.
- ^ John Blaney: Lennon and McCartney - Together Alone: A Critical Discography of their Solo Work . Jawbone, 2007. p. 53.
- ↑ Bruce Spizer: The Beatles Solo on Apple Records . New Orleans: 498 Productions, 2005. p. 53.
- ↑ Bryan Ferry explains how John Lennon's Jealous Guy because a Roxy Music classic , on noise11.com, accessed November 24, 2019
- ↑ www.vivaroxymusic.com: 1980-81 Roxy Music Flesh + Blood . Retrieved June 25, 2015
- ↑ www.vivaroxymusic.com: Jealous Guy, single . Retrieved June 25, 2015