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"Whatever Gets You thru the Night" was not Lennon's first choice for a single. It was chosen by Capitol Records vice-president Al Coury, who had recently worked his singles 'magic' with Paul McCartney's album Band on the Run. [16] Lennon created a promotional film for the song, in which he lip-synced the first verse while walking through Manhattan.
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]
"Whatever Gets You thru the Night" was Lennon's first number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist. [13] This achievement, together with the US success of the album, marked a comeback for Lennon, [ 46 ] whose career since Imagine in 1971 had trailed that of his former Beatles bandmates in terms of commercial success. [ 47 ]
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.
Music journalist Paul Du Noyer finds the song to be "nothing special — just an efficiently funky, bustling rocker" but notes that it plays an important role on Walls and Bridges by relieving some of the tension on the album between "the cold-hearted masterpiece of invective" "Steel and Glass" and what he considers "the most tortured track" on ...
"What You Got" John Lennon Walls and Bridges: John Lennon 1974 [22] "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" John Lennon Walls and Bridges: John Lennon 1974 [22] "Woman" # John Lennon Double Fantasy: John Lennon Yoko Ono Jack Douglas 1980 [30] "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" # (with Elephant's Memory) John Lennon Yoko Ono Some Time in New York ...
Bailey adds that being a part of the special is “a dream come true” for her before she gestures to Robinson and gushes he is a “legend.” Although the concert is a tribute to Motown ...
Mottau was awarded a gold record for his contribution on the "walls and Bridges album, which charted at #1 with "Whatever Gets You Through the Night". Mottau went on tour with Lennon and Yoko Ono appearing at the Attica State concert at the Apollo Theater in New York City and the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan , in 1971.He ...