Английская Википедия:All Those Years Ago

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox song "All Those Years Ago" is a song by the English rock musician George Harrison, released in May 1981 as a single from his ninth studio album Somewhere in England. Having previously recorded the music for the song, Harrison tailored the lyrics to serve as a personal tribute to his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon, following the latter's murder in 1980. Ringo Starr is featured on drums, and Paul McCartney (along with his Wings bandmates Linda McCartney and Denny Laine) overdubbed backing vocals onto the basic track. The single spent three weeks at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, behind "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, and it peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. It also topped Canada's RPM singles chart and spent one week at number 1 on BillboardШаблон:'s Adult Contemporary listings.[1]

"All Those Years Ago" was the first recording on which Harrison, McCartney and Starr all appeared since the Beatles' "I Me Mine" (1970), and their last recording together until "Free as a Bird" (1995). Other musicians performing on the track include Al Kooper and Ray Cooper. The song has appeared on the Harrison compilations Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 and Let It Roll, and a live version recorded in 1991 with Eric Clapton was included on Harrison's Live in Japan double album. In 2010, AOL Radio listeners voted "All Those Years Ago" in sixth place on a list of the "10 Best George Harrison Songs".[2] The track has been featured in the books 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die,Шаблон:CN and 10,001 You Must DownloadШаблон:CN by Robert Dimery, and Bruce Pollock's The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944–2000.Шаблон:CN

Origins

Prior to Lennon's death, Harrison originally wrote the song with different lyrics for Ringo Starr to record. Although he recorded it, Starr felt the vocal was too high for his range[3] and disliked the lyrics.[4] Harrison took the track back and, after Lennon's death, the lyrics were changed to reflect a tribute to him. In the song, Harrison makes reference to the Lennon-penned Beatles song "All You Need Is Love" and the Lennon song "Imagine" ("you were the one who Imagined it all").

Band line-up

The recording of the song featured all three remaining Beatles (Harrison, Starr and Paul McCartney), though this was expressly a Harrison single. It is one of only a few non-Beatles songs to feature three members of the band. Harrison and Starr recorded the song at Harrison's Friar Park studio between 19 November and 25 November 1980. The lineup was rounded out by Al Kooper on keyboards, Herbie Flowers on bass and percussionist Ray Cooper. Harrison co-produced the recording with Cooper.

After Lennon's death the following month, Harrison removed Starr's vocals (but kept Starr's drumming track) and recorded his own vocals with rewritten lyrics honouring Lennon. McCartney, his wife Linda and their Wings bandmate Denny Laine visited Friar Park and recorded backing vocals as an overdub to the original track.[5] The album's liner notes also thank the Beatles' former producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, who were present at the session where the backing vocals were recorded. Martin, Emerick and the members of Wings were working on McCartney's Tug Of War album at the time, and had traveled to Harrison's studio to record a Harrison guitar overdub for that album. The session instead turned into a vocal session for "All Those Years Ago", and Harrison's guitar piece for McCartney's album was never recorded.

Critical reception

Record World described the song as a "buoyant reminiscence [that] features George's fluid guitar lines with help from Paul, Ringo and Linda."[6]

Music video

The music video features a slide show-type presentation of stills and short archival video clips. The emphasis is on Lennon and, to a lesser degree, Harrison. The post-Beatles stills of Lennon at older ages are countered with stills of Harrison from the same time frame.

Personnel

Chart performance

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Weekly charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[7] 9
Austrian Singles Chart[8] 14
Belgian Ultratop Singles Chart[8] 38
Canadian RPM Top Singles[9] 1
Dutch MegaChart Singles[8] 43
Irish Singles Chart[10] 4
Italy (FIMI)[11] 20
New Zealand Singles Chart[12] 14
Norwegian VG-lista Singles[8] 2
Swiss Singles Chart[8] 8
Swedish Singles Chart[8] 11
UK Singles Chart[13] 13
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[14] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 2
US Cash Box Top 100[15] 3
West German Media Control Singles[16] 44

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Year-end charts

Chart (1981) Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[17] 73
Canadian RPM Singles[18] 30
Italy (FIMI)[19] 67
US Billboard Hot 100[20] 74
US Cash Box[21][22] 38

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See also

References

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External links

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  1. ↑ The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition, 1996
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  10. ↑ "Search by Artist > George Harrison" Шаблон:Webarchive, irishcharts.ie (retrieved 11 April 2014).
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