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Who sings road to nowhere4/5/2023 "The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance". The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio. Recording Industry Association of America. ^ "American single certifications – The Beatles – Nowhere Man".Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. ^ "The Beatles Single-Chartverfolgung (in German)".^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts" (Enter "Beatles" in the search box) (in German).^ "Record World 100 Top Pops – Week of April 2, 1966".Metuchen, NJ & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. ^ "The Beatles Chart History (Hot 100)".Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). ^ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 5709." RPM.^ " The Beatles – Nowhere Man" (in German).George Harrison – lead guitar, harmony vocalĬharts and certifications Weekly charts.Paul McCartney – bass guitar, harmony vocal.John Lennon – double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar, lead guitar.Personnel Īccording to Ian MacDonald, the line-up on the Beatles' recording was: He also recognises former Ramones drummer Marky Ramone as the artist who provided the "balls-to-the-wall version", saying that in Ramone's 1999 cover, he "spits and sprays Lennon's lyrics while guitars slash and grind". He highlights a "down-home take" by Randy Travis for the 1995 Come Together Beatles tribute album for its "sweet cascading pedal steel riff", and Replacements vocalist Paul Westerberg's acoustic rendering in the 2001 film I Am Sam for transforming the song into a "regretful lullaby". In his book on the legacy of Rubber Soul, John Kruth expresses disappointment in the Carpenters' version, which was recorded in 1968 and released in 2001, following singer Karen Carpenter's death (she died in 1983), with a "ludicrous" overdubbed string arrangement. The song has attracted many other cover versions, including recordings in the synth-pop style by Gershon Kingsley, glam metal by Dokken and easy listening by Yanni. Beatles historian John Winn describes Tim's version as the "highlight of the disc" and a "timeless" interpretation. Distributed to members of the Beatles' fan club, the record differed from the band's previous Christmas records by including separate contributions from the four bandmates, reflecting the disharmony within the group at the time. The bridge (a standard third-phrase "B" in the AABA form), which appears three times, seesaws on a G ♯ minor/A major (iii–IV) sequence before falling back on an F ♯ minor and leading back to the verse on a B 7, as is typical of "Tin-pan alley" standard B sections.Ī ukulele version of "Nowhere Man" by Tiny Tim was Harrison's contribution to the Beatles' 1968 Christmas record. The primary statement begins with the chord of E (I tonic) on "He's a real" and then involves a 5–4–3–2–1 pitch descent between the B (V dominant) chord on "nowhere man" and A (IV subdominant) chord on "sitting in" a twist comes where Am (iv minor) replaces A in the final line ("nowhere plans") and the simultaneous G ♯ note melody creates a dissonant Am M7. The song as a whole is a 32-bar form, following the standard model of the Tin-pan Alley chorus, with a repeating 8-bar primary statement outlining the E-major chord, a third phrase (bars 17–42) forming a musical question (concluding on the dominant B), and a fourth phrase recapitulating the initial statement in E major. Problems playing this file? See media help. The song appears in the film Yellow Submarine, where the Beatles sing it about the character Jeremy Hillary Boob after meeting him in the "nowhere land". The pair played identical "sonic blue"-coloured Fender Stratocasters on the track. The lead guitar solo was performed in unison by Harrison and Lennon. Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison sing the song in three-part harmony. It is one of the first Beatles songs to be entirely unrelated to romance or love, and marks a notable example of Lennon's philosophically oriented songwriting. Recorded on 21 and 22 October 1965, "Nowhere Man" describes a man with no direction in his life and with no genuine worldview. The song was also released as a single in some countries where it had been included on Rubber Soul, including Australia, where it topped the singles chart. In the US, the single peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the chart compiled by Record World magazine, as it did the RPM 100 chart in Canada and in Australia. The song was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. It was released in December 1965 on their album Rubber Soul, except in the United States and Canada, where it was first issued as a single A-side in February 1966 before appearing on the album Yesterday and Today. " Nowhere Man" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.
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