Walls and Bridges
Occupation
- John Lennon: vocals, guitar, piano, percussion
- Ken Ascher: electric piano, Clavinet, Mellotron
- Jim Keltner: drums
- Arthur Jenkins: percussion
- Nicky Hopkins: piano
- Klaus Voormann: Bass guitar
- Bobby Keyes: Saxophone
- Jesse Ed Davis: guitar
- New York Philharmonic: String Instruments
- Little Big Horns: Brass
- Harry Nilsson: vocal
- May Pang, Lori Burton: Backing Vocal
- Elton John: vocals, piano, Hammond organ
Walls and Bridges is the fifth solo album by John Lennon after the breakup of the Beatles. It was released on October 4, 1974. The cover is a picture that John Lennon painted at the age of eleven years. Pictured is a football match of FC Liverpool. An alternative cover of Walls and Bridges appeared on the 2005 CD shows Lennon with five glasses on his nose.
- 4.1 Page 1
- 4.2 Page 2
- 4.3 Bonus tracks
Genesis
Walls and Bridges was at the time ( recording sessions: July / August 1974), when John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived apart for 18 months. In the midst of this so-called Lost Weekends Walls and Bridges was born. In the fall of 1973 as the album Mind Games just released, John Lennon recorded a number of cover songs with Phil Spector. The sessions were interrupted by increasing alcohol consumption and Phil Spector took their tapes after termination of the project to him. Then the recordings for Walls and Bridges began; some songs reflected his changed life situation contradicts ( Steel and Glass) or reveal his fears ( Scared and Nobody Loves You ( When You're Down and Out ) ); continue the album contained (also) love songs to Yoko Ono ( Bless You ) and its s girlfriend May Pang ( Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox ) ). Elton John sang with John Lennon in the single release Whatever Gets You Thru the Night duet in Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox ) he sang the backing vocals. Elton John bet Lennon that the single will reach the number one position. After Elton John won the bet, John Lennon broke his gambling debts one by stopped in to see an Elton John concert on November 28, 1974 at Madison Square Garden and sang the following three songs: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Whatever Gets You Thru the Night and I Saw Her Standing There.
Publication
In the U.S., a quadraphonic mix on 8- track tape was sold additionally. Another song of the recording sessions, Move Over Mrs. L, was only in the next year, published in March 1975, when the B-side of Stand By Me, the first single from the album Rock ' n' Roll. In the U.S., the album reached the top spot in the UK in sixth place in Germany number 41 in the charts.
The first released in CD format in July 1987. In November 2005, the album in a remastered and remixed version with two bonus tracks and an interview was re-released. More shots were already on Menlove Ave. (Sample pictures of the item: Steel and Glass, Scared, Old Dirt Road, Nobody Loves You ( When You're Down and Out ) and Bless You ) and the John Lennon Anthology box set was released. In October 2010, the album was again in a remastered version, this time in the original mix and without bonus tracks, re-released.
Single releases
Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
The first single Whatever Gets You Thru the Night / Beef Jerky was released in September 1974, the first number-one hit in the U.S. for Lennon ( UK: # 36, Germany: Place 42). The marketed in the UK promotional single from Whatever Gets You Thru the Night included as a B- side an interview with the title: Interview With John Lennon by Bob Mercer and a Message To The Salesmen.
# 9 Dream
The second single # 9 Dream / What You Got was released in December 1974, it reached number 9 in the U.S. and the UK, number 23 in the charts in Germany could not place itself.