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Today in counterculture history (12/28) 3
#13694410 - 12/28/10 02:05 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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- 1970: John Lennon releases the single for the song "Mother"
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Mother is a song by British musician John Lennon, first released on his 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. An edited version of the song was issued as a single in the United States on Apple Records, catalogue 1827, about three weeks after the album. The single edit of this song runs about fifteen seconds shorter than the album version, cutting out the beginning tolling bells as well as some of Lennon's more guttural screams that intensify the ending of the song. The b-side features "Why" by Yoko Ono, and a variant on the single edit first appeared on album for the 1975 compilation Shaved Fish.
Conception
Though the song is called "Mother", it is actually a cry to both of his parents, who "abandoned" him in his childhood - father Alf Lennon left the family when John was an infant, and mother Julia was hit by a car and killed on the street by an allegedly drunk-driving off-duty policeman, when her son was 17. Lennon bemoans the loss of his parents singing lyrics such as "Mother, you had me/but I never had you"; "Father, you left me/but I never left you"; "I needed you/you didn't need me"; and "Mama, don't go/Daddy come home". He touched that subject before in his Beatle song "Yer Blues", which contains the lyrics "My mother was of the sky/my father was of the earth". "Mother" is one of the songs which Lennon wrote for his mother, along with "Julia" and "My Mummy's Dead", and also mentions her in "I'm the Greatest". The song begins with the sound of a church bell ringing ominously, signifying death.
Lennon was inspired to write the song by a period of using primal therapy, which works on the assumption that the patient has several defences which must be stripped down to reveal the "real person". Lennon's wife Yoko Ono worked on this with Dr. Arthur Janov, originally at their home at Tittenhurst Park for a period of three weeks and then at the Primal Institute, California where they remained for four months. Lennon described the therapy as "something more important to me than The Beatles."
Although Lennon said that "Mother" was the song that "seemed to catch in my head," he had doubts about its commercial appeal and he considered issuing "Love" as a single instead. "Love" was eventually released as a single in 1982.
Other versions
Barbra Streisand recorded "Mother" (as well as Lennon's "Love") on her 1971 album Barbra Joan Streisand and was a single as well. The song was also featured on the live album Live in New York City by Lennon, but released by Yoko Ono after his death. Other songs born out of this period of therapy include "Working Class Hero" and "Isolation". Shigesato Itoi, creator of the Mother video game series, stated in an interview that this song was in large part the inspiration for his naming of the series. Mia Martini recorded in 1972 this song in Italian, with the title literally translated as "Madre". Maynard Ferguson recorded the song on his 1972 album M.F. Horn Two. Shelby Lynne covered this song for her 2001 album Love, Shelby, with the added resonance of her tragic family history. (Lynne's father, an abusive alcoholic, shot and killed her mother and then himself when Lynne was 17.) Christina Aguilera covered the song in 2007 for the benefit album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, and Emmanuel Jal's version was available on that album as an iTunes exclusive bonus track.
Personnel
The musicians who performed on the original recording were as follows:
* John Lennon - vocals, piano * Ringo Starr - drums * Klaus Voormann - bass
from the album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band B-side "Why" (Yoko Ono) Released December 28, 1970 Format 7" vinyl Recorded September-October 1970 Genre Rock Length 3:53 Writer(s) John Lennon Producer Phil Spector, John Lennon and Yoko Ono
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#13694694 - 12/28/10 04:18 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#13694699 - 12/28/10 04:22 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Dont ever leave us
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#13695108 - 12/28/10 08:53 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you're feeling tired and lonely Uninspired and lonely If you're thinking how the days seem long All you're given Is what you've been given a thousand times before Just more more More of that jazz More no more of that jazz Give me no more No more of that jazz
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#13695280 - 12/28/10 09:53 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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That's pop-culture history!
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: TheSlapnCapn]
#13695292 - 12/28/10 09:58 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Leary has allowed me to switch gears in this thread as long as its classical
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: TheSlapnCapn]
#13695294 - 12/28/10 09:59 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Children, don't do. What I have done. I, couldn't walk. But I tried to run!
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#13695308 - 12/28/10 10:04 AM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Grab my hands lets dance Funs for free
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#13696727 - 12/28/10 03:59 PM (13 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here's the studio version.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#15581692 - 12/28/11 05:45 AM (12 years, 1 month ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#19336246 - 12/28/13 09:41 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here's the Yoko Ono b-side of the single called "Why", if you're interested.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#21035703 - 12/28/14 02:23 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Mama don't go!
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#21035719 - 12/28/14 02:25 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Today in counter-culture history 12/28/13 Sheekle goes to his second Phish show, at Madison Square Garden
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Sheekle]
#22708287 - 12/28/15 06:34 AM (8 years, 1 month ago) |
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45th anniversary of Lennon's "Mother" single today.
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#24872768 - 12/28/17 05:53 AM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Daddy come home!
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#27111623 - 12/28/20 04:06 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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50th anniversary of John Lennon's single for "Mother" today.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (12/28) [Re: Learyfan]
#28600481 - 12/28/23 04:19 AM (1 month, 10 hours ago) |
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Death
Julia visited Mimi nearly every day, where they would chat over tea and cakes in the morning room or stand in the garden when it was warm. On the evening of 15 July 1958, Nigel Walley went to visit John and found Julia and Mimi talking by the front gate. John was not there, as he was at the Blomfield Road house. Walley accompanied Julia to the bus stop further north along Menlove Avenue with her, telling jokes along the way. At about 9:30, Walley left her to walk up Vale Road and she crossed Menlove Avenue to the central reservation between two traffic lines, which was lined with hedges that covered disused tram tracks. Moments later, Walley heard "a loud thud", and turned to see her body "flying through the air"—which landed about 100 feet (30 m) from where she had been hit. He ran back to get Mimi and they waited for the ambulance, with Mimi crying hysterically.
Julia was knocked down and killed by a Standard Vanguard car, driven by an off-duty constable, PC Eric Clague, who was a learner-driver. Clague was acquitted of all charges and given a short suspension from duty. When Mimi Smith heard the verdict she was so incensed that she shouted "Murderer!" at Clague. Clague later left the police force and became a postman. Julia Lennon's grave in Allerton Cemetery
John could not bring himself to look at his mother's body when he was taken to the Sefton General Hospital, and was so distraught that he put his head on Smith's lap throughout the funeral service. He refused to talk to Walley for months afterwards, and Walley felt that John somehow held him responsible. Julia was buried in Allerton Cemetery, in Liverpool. Her gravesite was for some time unmarked, but it was later identified as "CE (Church of England) 38-805". The graveyard's location is approx. 1.19 miles east of 1 Blomfield Road. Baird said that the Stanley family hoped to finally put a headstone on her mother's grave, which she hoped "will be a private affair for the family and not for the public". A headstone was subsequently placed on Lennon's grave (replacing a wooden cross), with the words "Mummy, John, Victoria, Julia, Jackie" inscribed.
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
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