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~ The Beatles - Nowhere Man
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Copyright - 1965 EMI Records Ltd.
"Nowhere Man" is a song by British 1960s rock group The Beatles, from their hit album Rubber Soul (in the U.S. on the Yest ...More erday ... and Today album). Though the songwriting credit is Lennon-McCartney, it was actually penned almost entirely by John Lennon. (Paul McCartney helped to "polish off the rough edges".) It was recorded on October 21 and 22, 1965. "Nowhere Man" is among the very first Beatles songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable instance of Lennon's philosophically-oriented songwriting. It was released as a single 15 February and reached #1 in Canada and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Interpretation
When the song first appeared during the 1960s, many of the Beatles youthful fan base interpreted the rather hard-edged lyric, which satirizes the "Nowhere Man" as someone who "just sees what he wants to see" and who "don't know what [he's] missing", as directed against their parents' generation and conformism generally.
Lennon, however, claimed that he himself was the subject of the song. He wrote it after racking his brain in desperation for five hours, trying to come up with another song for Rubber Soul. "I'd actually stopped trying to think of something," he said. "Then I thought of myself as Nowhere Man — sitting in his nowhere land Lennon told Playboy: "I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then 'Nowhere Man' came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down."
If factual, Lennon's explanation places the song with Lennon's earlier "I'm a Loser" and later introspective and self-critical songs, both as a Beatle ("Yer Blues") and as a solo artist ("Jealous Guy"), rather than Lennon's "counter-culture" songs such as "The Word" and "All You Need is Love" (as it was perceived at the time).
McCartney said of the song: "That was John after a night out, with dawn coming up. I think at that point, he was a bit...wondering where he was going and to be truthful so was I. I was starting to worry about him. "
Other recordings
The British folk group The Settlers recorded the song in 1966. In 1976, Jeff Lynne of ELO recorded it for the evanescent musical do#@!&entary All This and World War II. The song was also performed by the Bee Gees in the 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film, with Barry Gibb on lead vocals.
Also, in 1967, the Carpenters performed a piano/vocal version in Joe Osborn's garage studio. In the late '90s/early '00s, Richard tried to de-noise the tracks after it was nearly destroyed from a fire in Joe Osborn's house in 1973, and added strings and woodwind lines to the song.
In the animated movie Yellow Submarine (1968) The Beatles, on their way to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, encounter Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph. D., a strange, little, brown-furred man with a blue face, pink ears, and tail, who lives in the Sea of Nothing, speaks in rhyme, and describes himself as an "eminent physicist, polyglot classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist, good dentist too." The band realizes one of their songs sums Jeremy up well and they sing "Nowhere Man" about him as they cavort with his magic in his nowhere land.
Recorded Abbey Road Studios
21 October 1965, remade 22 October |
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~ Britney Spears vacations in Mexico
Views: 7086 |  |  |  |  | Hello, I'm Rebecca Field with a UPI entertainment update on this Friday, January 11, 2008.
Britney Spears has taken some time away from the turmoil in L.A. for a Mexican getaway. The pop star reportedly checked in to a hotel just south of the Californi ...More a border on Wednesday. She was joined by her photographer friend who, sources say, she is now dating. Just a week ago, Spears lost visitation rights with her kids following a custody dispute in her home.
Clothing designer Stella McCartney has a new addition to her family. The daughter of former Beatle Paul McCartney and her husband Alasdhair Willis welcomed a baby boy on Tuesday. His name is Beckett Robert Lee. The new baby joins siblings Miller Alasdhair James and Bailey Linda Olwyn.
Pamela Anderson is rejecting rumors that she's pregnant. Reports surfaced recently that she was expecting. But on her blog, Anderson responded with one word..."no." She and husband Rick Salomon are reportedly in the middle of a divorce. Salomon was served with legal papers last month, after only 2 months of marriage.
Actress Mischa Barton is opening up about her recent DUI arrest. The former "O.C." star tells radio host Ryan Seacrest she's "100 percent responsible" for her actions. Barton added that she's really disappointed in herself. The actress was arrested for driving under the influence last month after a night out with friends.
Stars hit the red carpet in London last night for the European premiere of "Sweeney Todd." The film's stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter attended the event as well as Director Tim Burton. Other stars like Alan Rickman and Laura Michelle Kelly were there too. The film, based on the Broadway musical, premiered in the U.S. last month.
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