(Just Like) Starting Over
October 24, 1980
( Just Like ) Starting Over is a song by John Lennon in 1980, which was written by him and produced in cooperation with Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas. It was released on 24 October 1980 as a preliminary single release of the album Double Fantasy. On the B - side was composed and sung the piece Kiss Kiss Kiss by Yoko Ono.
History
( Just Like ) Starting Over Lennon's first single was after five years of retirement from the music business. He developed the piece from several unfinished compositions, from which he eventually composed the song. Two of these fragments carried the working title My Life and Do not Be Crazy. From them developed the Lennon verses. Another part was initially titled The Worst Is Over, it later became the chorus. The piece represented a return to his musical roots Lennon, rock ' n ' roll of the 1950s, dar.
" It had the Fifties -ish sound because i have never really written a song did sounded like that period, Although did what my period, the music I Identified with. "
"It [ the song ] had this Fifties- sound, because I had never written a piece that sounded like a song from this period, although this was my time to the music with which I identified myself. "
During the recording of Lennon described the song as the " Elvis Orbison " number to describe what style he envisioned. An inspiration was the song Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel ) by Roy Orbison. In singing, also bonds of Elvis Presley and Orbison mentioned above can be seen. The little bell that heralds the song is a deliberate reference to the dismal peal, with the 1970 song Mother began.
Originally called the song Starting Over, but the song was given the ( Just Like ), as already stated, a song by Tammy Wynette Starting Over.
Achievements
The single reached after the publication in October 1980 initially only the lower courses of the top 10 in the UK and U.S. charts. In the UK, was ranked number 9 in the U.S. 7th place, the highest placing. After John Lennon's murder on 8 December 1980, the sales figures rose and the single was not only in the United States and Great Britain, among others, but also in Ireland, Australia, Austria and Switzerland, a number-one hit.