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"Whatever Gets You thru the Night" is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1974 on Apple Records, catalogue number Apple 1874 in the United States and Apple R5998 in the United Kingdom. [6] In the U.S. it peaked at No. 1 on all three record charts: Billboard Hot 100, Cashbox, and Record World, [7] and at No. 36 in the UK.
A new video. On 15 November 1974 a BBC film crew, directed by John, spent a day with him around Central Park and various other locations in New York, to make a video for "Whatever Gets You Through The Night". The video was never broadcast, but a small amount of the footage emerged as a very short edit for “#9 Dream" in February 1975.
Walls and Bridges was an American number-one album on both the Billboard and Record World charts [1] and included two hit singles, "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" and "#9 Dream". The first of these was Lennon's first number-one hit in the United States as a solo artist, and his only solo chart-topping single in either the US or Britain ...
After Lennon asked John to sing background vocals on “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” – which escalated into a proper duet – John bet his friend that it would hit No. 1. Lennon, ever the ...
In 1974, Nixon resigns and Elton John collaborates on Lennon's song "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" for his new album Walls and Bridges, and makes a deal for a concert appearance if the song hits #1. When it does, Lennon joins Elton's Madison Square Garden concert in November, and sings "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" with him ...
[8] At one point during the song's bridge, there is a chorus calling out the song's title "beef jerky" several times [1] mimicking The Bar-kays similar bridge in their instrumental hit "Soul Finger". Lennon acknowledged its debt to earlier rhythm and blues and soul music by including a credit to "Booker Table and the Maitre D's," a pun on ...
Below, we have a mix of both the licensed, "real" songs that are played in the Daisy Jones & The Six series, and also the featured in-world song (and their real-life credits). Episode 1 - "Track 1 ...
The second single from Born to Break, "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", was released on 13 July. [7] The song received the band's first national radio airplay on 9 July, on Johnnie Walker's Rock Show on BBC Radio 2. [8] A third single, "Born to Break", was released on 2 November. [9]