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Stand by Me" peaked at number 20 in the US and number 30 in the UK. [36] Lennon promoted the song by appearing on the BBC TV show Old Grey Whistle Test, which also featured an interview by Bob Harris. [37] The show had Lennon singing live over the backing tracks of "Stand by Me" and "Slippin' and Slidin'". [37]
"Stand by Me" is a song originally performed in 1961 by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by him, along with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who together used the pseudonym Elmo Glick. According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called "Stand by Me Father", recorded by the Soul Stirrers
Acoustic is a compilation album of John Lennon demos, studio and live performances that feature his acoustic guitar work and was released in 2004. Although it failed to chart in the United Kingdom, Acoustic reached number 31 in the United States with sales of 27,858 copies, becoming John Lennon's best charting posthumous US release since 1988's Imagine: John Lennon soundtrack.
Lennon had the sweetish pretension that he was a rock ‘n roller — I imagine he imagined himself as a ’50s kind of rock star, like Buddy Holly, or maybe Jerry Lee Lewis, unsophisticated ...
"Move Over Ms. L" is a song written by John Lennon. It was originally intended to be released on his 1974 album Walls and Bridges but was left off shortly before the album release, and was eventually released as the b-side to Lennon's "Stand by Me" single. In the interim it was released by Keith Moon on his album Two Sides of the Moon. Moon ...
[7] Cash Box also commented on the "accessible lyrics and a tight chorus that Lennon sings with abandon" and noted that the prologue and ending express Lennon's "witty side." [7] Muriel Gray at Smash Hits said, "For an extraordinary man, John Lennon managed to write a lot of very ordinary material before he died. This is basic and dull, it ...
Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes is a compilation album of music recorded by John Lennon over the course of his solo career, each song remixed from new transfers of the original tracks. [2] It was released on 9 October 2020, on what would have been Lennon's 80th birthday. [ 3 ]
Mind Games is the third solo studio album by English musician John Lennon.It was recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York in summer 1973. The album was released in the US on 29 October 1973 and in the UK on 16 November 1973.