JOHN LENNON. 1974
WALLS AND BRIDGES. LP (UK)
Apple Records – PCTC 253, Apple Records – OC 066 o 05733
Matrix / Runout (Side A, label): YEX.937
Matrix / Runout (Side B, label): YEX.938
Vinyl, LP, Stereo, 33 1/3, Album, Die Cut Outer Sleeve,
Country: UK
Записан / Выпущен: июнь — июль 1974 / 4 октября 1974
Жанр,стиль: Rock, Folk Rock, Pop Rock,
mp3 320 кбит/сек. 157 Mb
Продолжительность: 46:28
ОБЗОР
TRACKLIST:
SIDE 1
01. Going Down On Love - 03:58
Electric Piano – Ken Ascher
Featuring – Little Big Horns
Guitar – Dr. Winston O'Ghurkin
Horns – Bobby Keys, Frank Vicari, Howard Johnson, Ron Aprea, Steve Madaio
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
02. Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - 03:29
Clavinet – Ken Ascher
Guitar – Hon. John St. John Johnson
Organ, Piano, Harmony Vocals – Elton John
Tenor Saxophone – Bobby Keys
03. Old Dirt Road - 04:15
Backing Vocals – Harry Nilsson
Electric Piano – Ken Ascher
Piano – Nicky Hopkins, Rev. Thumbs Ghurkin
Words by Harry Nilsson
04. What You Got - 03:10
Clavinet – Ken Ascher
Featuring – Little Big Horns
Guitar – Kaptain Kundalini
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
05. Bless You - 04:38
Acoustic Guitar – Rev. Fred Ghurkin
Electric Piano, Mellotron – Ken Ascher
06. Scared - 04:41
Baritone Saxophone – Howard Johnson
Electric Piano – Ken Ascher
Featuring – Little Big Horns
Piano – Mel Torment, Nicky Hopkins
SIDE 2
07. #9 Dream - 04:47
Acoustic Guitar – Dr. Dream
Backing Vocals – Joey Dambra, John Lennon, Lori Burton, May Pang
Clavinet – Ken Ascher
Electric Piano – Nicky Hopkins
Featuring – The 44th Street Fairies
08. Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox) - 02:59
Clavinet – Ken Ascher
Featuring – Little Big Horns
Featuring (Added Attraction) – Lolly And Stan
Harmony Vocals – Elton John
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
09. Steel And Glass - 04:38
Acoustic Guitar – Dr. Winston O'Reggae
Clavinet – Ken Ascher
Featuring – Little Big Horns
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
10. Beef Jerky - 03:31
Featuring – Little Big Horns
Guitar – Dr. Winston And Booker Table And The Maitre d's
11. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) - 05:15
Acoustic Guitar – Dwarf McDougal
Featuring – Little Big Horns
Organ – Ken Ascher
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
12. Ya Ya - 01:10
Drums – Julian Lennon
Piano – John Lennon
Written by Robinson, Lewis, Dorsey
Written by John Lennon, (01-11), except (02,12)
Published by: Lennon Music, ATV Music Ltd., April Music, Tro Essex Music Ltd.
Printed by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Recorded at Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Art Direction, Design Roy Kohara
Conductor, Orchestrated by Ken Ascher
Coordinator May Pang
Engineer Shelly "I Can't Take The Pressure" Yakus
Engineer (Over-dubs) Jimmy "What It Is" Iovine
Engineer (Strings), Remix – Roy "I Only Like Singles" Cicala
Lacquer Cut by Greg Calbi
Mastered by Tom Rabstenek
Photography by Bob Gruen
Producer (With) Little Big Horns, The Philharmanic Orchestrange, Plastic Nuclear Ono Band
Producer, Arranged by John Lennon
Die Cut Outer Sleeve. Includes booklet and printed inner sleeve.
Walls and Bridges
Studio album by John Lennon
Released 4 October 1974
Recorded June – July 1974
Genre Rock, pop rock
Length 46:02
Label Apple/EMI
Producer John Lennon
Professional reviews
* Allmusic 3.5/5 stars link
* Rolling Stone 3/5 stars link
Walls and Bridges is the fifth official album by English rock musician John Lennon; it was issued on 4 October 1974. Written, recorded and released during his 18-month separation from Yoko Ono (June 1973-January 1975), the album captures Lennon in the midst his "Lost Weekend". Walls and Bridges was an American Billboard #1 album and featured Lennon's only #1 single as a solo artist during his lifetime, "Whatever Gets You thru the Night".
Background
In June 1973, as Lennon was about to record Mind Games, Ono decided that she and Lennon should separate. Ono suggested that he take their personal assistant, May Pang, as a companion . Lennon soon moved to California with Pang, and embarked upon an eighteen-month relationship with Pang he would later refer to as his "Lost Weekend". While Lennon and Pang were living in Los Angeles, John took the opportunity to get reacquainted with his son, Julian, whom he had not seen in four years. Lennon had planned to record an album of rock 'n' roll oldies with producer Phil Spector, but these sessions became legendary not for the music produced but for the chaotic antics fueled by alcohol. Lennon and Pang returned to New York and Spector disappeared with these session tapes. Still in the mood to make music, Lennon decided to record a new album of original material.
Recording
Recording sessions for Walls and Bridges began in June, 1974 at Record Plant East. Musicians included Jim Keltner on drums, Klaus Voormann on bass, Jesse Ed Davis on guitar, and Arthur Jenkins on percussion.
Walls and Bridges has a variety of musical stylings and many of the lyrics make it clear that Lennon both enjoyed his new-found freedom and also missed Ono. "Going Down On Love", "What You Got" and "Bless You" address his feelings toward Ono, while the first track written for the record, "Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)" was written for Pang. "Steel and Glass" included a sinister riff reminiscent of "How Do You Sleep", Lennon's audio argument with Paul McCartney from the Imagine album, though the digs this time were directed at former Beatles manager Allen Klein. "Scared" is a haunting track exploring Lennon's fear of ageing, loneliness and the emptiness of success. It also included the seemingly prophetic lyric: "Hatred and jealousy gonna be the death of me."
The album also includes some of Lennon's most uplifting songs, namely its two singles "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" (which features Elton John on piano and harmony vocals) and "#9 Dream" (the instrumentation literally evokes a dream) and "Beef Jerky", a funky Stax-inspired instrumental (the only instrumental to appear on a Lennon solo album).
Another notable track is "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)", although written in 1973, was remembered by Lennon in an interview for Playboy magazine as expressing his feeling for the whole [lost weekend] period. Lennon "always imagined Sinatra singing that one. I don't know why. It's kind of a Sinatra-esque song, really. He would do a perfect job with it. Are you listening Frank? You need one song that isn't a piece of nothing. Here's one for you, the horn arrangement and everything's made for you. But don't ask me to produce it".
The final track is a casual cover of the Lee Dorsey oldie "Ya Ya", which Lennon tacked onto the end of the album with the credit: "Starring Julian Lennon on drums and Dad on piano and vocals". During one of his frequent visits from England to see his father during this period, eleven-year-old Julian attended the recording sessions. Lennon surprised Julian by including the track on the album. Pang recalled the younger Lennon's response, telling his father "If I'd known, I would have played better". Lennon also sends a message to publisher Morris Levy who was expecting this Lennon release to be the oldies album (see Rock 'n' Roll) at the beginning of the track: "Let's do sitting in the lala and get rid of that!" which infuriated Levy.
Cut from the album at the last minute was a track called "Move Over Ms. L", one of Lennon's harder rockers, which would eventually appear as the B-side to the single "Stand By Me" the following year – the only example of a Lennon B-side not already available on an album.
Reception
Walls and Bridges was well received by critics and the public. Both the album and the single, "Whatever Gets You thru the Night", reached #1 on the US charts the same week (16 November), and #6 in the UK. Ringo Starr called it "the best album in the past five years" in a 1974 Melody Maker interview.
During the recording of "Whatever Gets You," Elton John bet Lennon that it would top the charts. Never believing it would, Lennon agreed to perform live with John if it did. Having lost the wager, Lennon appeared at John's Madison Square Garden show on 28 November, performing Lennon's current #1 hit together as well as The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", (which was Elton John's new single with Lennon on backing vocals). This was Lennon's last major live performance.
In addition to reestablishing a relationship with Julian, Lennon mended fences with the other Beatles during this period, and Walls and Bridges is filled with musical nods to the group. In the opening track, Lennon sings "somebody please, please help me". On "Surprise Surprise", Lennon utilizes the coda of "Drive My Car" substituting the "beep beep yeahs" with "sweet sweet love". In response to McCartney's Lennon-esque track, Let Me Roll It on the Band on the Run album, Lennon took the guitar riff note for note and incorporated it into "Beef Jerky".
The album's elaborate jacket featured childhood drawings done by Lennon and a series of interchangeable faces. Walls and Bridges also had a popular ad campaign (created by Lennon) called "Listen To This..." (button, photo, sticker, ad, poster, t-shirt and, in New York City, a huge poster plastered on the rear of 2,000 city buses).
Television and radio commercials featuring a voiceover from Ringo Starr depicted the album jacket in its many 'photo flap' faces. Lennon would return the favor and do the voiceover for the commercials for Starr's Goodnight Vienna album.
Shortly after its release, Lennon personally mixed a true quadrophonic version of the album ("for the 20 people who buy quad," he joked in his infamous 1974 WNEW radio interview in New York). These mixes highlight many of the percussive and orchestrative textures that were not as prominent on the stereo version.
Remix/Remaster
Walls and Bridges was released in a remixed and remastered form in November 2005 (though four of the original tracks: "Old Dirt Road", "Bless You", "Scared" and "Nobody Loves You" were not remixed). The remastered version featured an alternative cover. This new cover retained Lennon's signature and hand-written title, but used one of the portraits Bob Gruen took for the album instead of Lennon's childhood drawing. The bonus tracks for the reissue include "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" performed live with Elton John, a previously unreleased acoustic version of "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out)" and a promotional interview with Lennon.
Arranged and produced by John Lennon.
Performed by:
* John Lennon: lead, harmony and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitar; piano, whistling and percussion.
* Ken Ascher: electric piano, clavinet and mellotron.
* Jim Keltner: drums.
* Arthur Jenkins: percussion.
* Nicky Hopkins: piano.
* Klaus Voormann: bass.
* Bobby Keys: tenor saxophone
* Jesse Ed Davis: lead and acoustic guitar
* Eddie Mottau: acoustic guitar.
Plus:
* Strings and brass musicians from the New York Philharmonic Orchestrange: arranged and conducted by Ken Ascher.
* Little Big Horns: brass section, arranged and conducted by Bobby Keys.
Special guest:
* Julian Lennon: drums on "Ya-ya"
* Elton John: piano and harmony vocals on "Whatever Gets you thru the Night" and hammond organ and background vocals on "Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)".
* Joey Dambra, Lori Burton and May Pang: background vocals on "9 Dream".
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