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US picture sleeveMusic videoon' Instant Karma!' (also titled ' Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)') is a song by English rock musician, released as a single on in February 1970. The lyric focuses on a concept in which the of one's actions is immediate rather than borne out over a lifetime.
The single was credited to 'Lennon/ with the ', apart from in the US, where the credit was 'John Ono Lennon'. The song reached the top five in the British and American singles charts, competing with ' ' in the US, where it became the first solo single by a member of the band to sell a million copies.' Instant Karma!' Was conceived, written, recorded and released within a period of ten days, making it one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history. The recording was produced by, marking a comeback for the American producer after his self-imposed retirement in 1966, and leading to him being offered the producer's role on the Beatles' album.
Recorded at London's, 'Instant Karma!' Employs Spector's signature technique and features contributions from,. The was 'Who Has Seen the Wind?'
, a song composed and performed by Yoko Ono. When released in the US, the single was given a minor by Spector.Recently shorn of the long hair synonymous with their for, Lennon and Ono promoted the single with an appearance on Britain's five days after its release. The song received positive reviews and is considered by some music critics to be among the finest recordings from Lennon's solo career. A live performance recorded at his and Ono's 'One to One' concerts in August 1972 was included on the posthumously released (1986)., and are among the acts who have covered 'Instant Karma!' Its chorus also inspired the title to 's 1977 novel. Everybody was going on about. But it occurred to me that karma is instant, as well as it influences your past life or your future life.
There really is a reaction to what you do now. Also, I'm fascinated by commercials and promotion as an art form. So, the idea of instant karma was like the idea of instant coffee: presenting something in a new form.– John Lennon to magazine, 1980Together with his wife, spent New Year 1970 in, Denmark, establishing a relationship with Ono's former husband, artist, and visiting Cox and Ono's daughter Kyoko. The visit coincided with the start of what Lennon termed 'Year 1 AP (After Peace)', following his and Ono's heavily publicised and other activities throughout 1969. To mark the new era, on 20 January 1970, the couple shaved off their shoulder-length hair – an act that Britain's described as 'the most sensational scalpings since the went out of business'. Having been recognised for his peace efforts in a segment on 's Man of the Decade documentary, and then chosen as magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1969, Lennon said he cut his hair to 'stop being hyped by revolutionary image and long hair'. Lennon and Ono promised to auction the shorn hair for a charitable cause.
This pledge followed the couple's announcement, on 5 January, that they would donate all future royalties from their recordings to the. Lennon was inspired to write the song by conversations he had when visiting the Danish city of in January 1970.While in Denmark, the Lennons, Cox and the latter's current partner, Melinde Kendall, discussed the concept of 'instant ', whereby the of one's actions is immediate rather than borne out over a lifetime. Author writes of the concept's appeal: 'The idea was quintessential Lennon – the age-old Buddhist law of cause and effect turned into something as modern and synthetic as instant coffee and, simultaneously, into a bogey under the stairs that can get you if you don't watch out.' On 27 January, two days after returning to the UK, Lennon woke up with the beginnings of a song inspired by his conversations with Cox and Kendall.
Working at home on a piano, he developed the idea and came up with a melody for the composition, which he titled 'Instant Karma!' Lennon completed the writing of 'Instant Karma!'
Eager to record the song immediately, he then telephoned his bandmate and American producer, who was in London at the invitation of, the manager of the Beatles' organisation. According to Lennon's recollection, he told Spector: 'Come over to Apple quick, I've just written a monster.'
Composition The song employs a similar to that of ' and ', and Lennon had used the same progression in the Beatles' 1967 single '. Later in 1970, he would adopt the melody of 'Three Blind Mice', an English, for his song '.In their book The Words and Music of John Lennon, Ben Urish and Kenneth Bielen write that in the first verse of 'Instant Karma!' , Lennon employs sarcasm as he urges the listener to 'Get yourself together / Pretty soon you're gonna be dead' and emphasises 'It's up to you – yeah, you!' Norman comments on the 'hippie catchphrase of the moment' contained in this instruction to 'Get yourself together', and he says that the warning of imminent death is 'obviously not to be taken literally'.
Author cites the lines 'Why in the world are we here / Surely not to live in pain and fear?' As a further example of Lennon 'asking what purpose his life on earth was to serve', after his 1966 composition '. According to Urish and Bielen, 'Instant Karma!' Conveys the need to recognise and act upon a shared responsibility for the wellbeing of humankind; the karmic rewards of this mindset are available to all, as implied in Lennon's exhortation to 'Come and get your share'. The same authors pair the song with Lennon and Ono's ' single from 1971, in terms of how the singer 'both prods and challenges listeners before providing reassurance'.As with ' and ' – Lennon singles from 1969 and 1971 respectively – the chorus has an anthem-like quality, as he sings: 'We all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun.'
Norman describes the chorus as Lennon restating his message of 'peace campaigning and non-violent, optimistic togetherness'. According to Lennon biographer John Blaney, the song is an appeal 'for mankind to take responsibility for its fate' and represents 'Lennon developing his own brand of '.
Made his first contribution as a Beatles producer with Lennon's 'Instant Karma!' He would later arrange the final mix of.Although still officially a member of the Beatles, Lennon had privately announced his departure from the band in September 1969. He was keen to issue 'Instant Karma!' Immediately as a single, the third under his and Ono's moniker.
The recording session took place at in north-west London, on the evening of 27 January. Lennon's fellow musicians at the session were Harrison, and – all of whom had performed at the December 1969, as part of the. The recording engineer for 'Instant Karma!' Was mainstay. Spector produced the session, arriving late after Harrison had found him at Apple's office and persuaded him to attend.According to author, the line-up for the basic track, before, was Lennon (vocals, acoustic guitar), Harrison (electric guitar), Preston (organ), Voormann (bass) and White (drums). Lennon later recalled of the recording: 'Phil (Spector) came in and said, 'How do you want it?' And I said, '1950s' and he said 'Right' and BOOM!
He played it back and there it was.' The song uses a similar amount of to 1950s recordings. There was this little guy walking around with 'PS' on his shirt, and I was thinking, 'Who is this guy?'
When he turned on the playback after recording, it was just incredible. First, it was ridiculously loud, but also there was the ring of all these instruments and the way the song had such motion. As a first experience of the difference from the way you played it to the sound in the control room, it was overwhelming. And I knew immediately who he was – Phil Spector.–, describing his first experience of working with Spector and his techniqueThe musicians recorded ten takes, the last of which was selected for overdubbing. To create what Spector biographer Mark Ribowsky terms a 'four-man ' production, Lennon added onto the basic track, while Harrison and White shared another piano and Voormann played electric piano.
In addition, Beatles aide overdubbed chimes (or ) and White added a second, muffled drum part. Rather than an instrumental solo over the third verse, Lennon vocalised a series of what Urish and Bielen term 'grunts and moans'. Lennon felt that the chorus was missing something, and so Preston and Evans were sent to a nearby nightclub to bring in a group of people to provide backing vocals. These newcomers and all the musicians, along with Allen Klein, then added chorus vocals, with Harrison directing the singing.Although Lennon and Spector disagreed over the bass sound, Lennon was delighted with the producer's work on 'Instant Karma'.
White's drums assumed the role of a lead instrument, positioned prominently in the mix. Spector biographer wrote in 1972: 'No Beatles record had ever possessed such a unique sound; Spector had used echo to make the drums reverberate like someone slapping a wet fish on a marble slab, and the voices sounded hollow and decayed.' Spector wanted to add a to the track in Los Angeles, but Lennon insisted that the recording was complete.Having only recently returned to producing, after the commercial failure of 's 1966 single ' in America, Spector had 'passed the audition', according to Beatles Forever author. 'Instant Karma!' Was the first of many Beatles-related recordings that Spector worked on during the early 1970s.
Lennon and Harrison were sufficiently impressed with his production on the song that they asked Spector to work on the tapes for the Beatles' final album release, and then to produce their respective 1970 solo albums,. 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' As with the Plastic Ono Band's previous singles, 'Give Peace a Chance' and ', Lennon and Ono recorded an Ono composition as a. Produced by Lennon, 'Who Has Seen the Wind?'
Was recorded at in central London, also in late January 1970. The opening verse, sung by Ono, is from a work by nineteenth-century English poet. The instrumentation on the recording includes Lennon playing acoustic guitar;, Harrison's regular collaborator and arranger, on; Ono on flute; and various. Spizer suggests that Harrison may also have participated, on acoustic guitar. Release 'Instant Karma!'
Ranks as one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history, arriving in UK record stores just ten days after it was written. ' tagline in trade advertisements for the single read: 'Ritten, Recorded, Remixed 27th Jan 1970.' Lennon remarked to the press that he 'wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're putting it out for dinner'. Apple issued the single on 6 February 1970 in Britain – credited to the Plastic Ono Band – and on 20 February in America, where the was retitled 'Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)' and credited to John Ono Lennon. Spector remixed 'Instant Karma!' For the US release without Lennon's knowledge.As with 'Cold Turkey', the single's standard Apple Records A-side face label carried the words 'PLAY LOUD', in both the UK and America.
Reflecting the tender sound of 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' , the B-side label read 'PLAY QUIET' (or 'PLAY SOFT' in the US). The front of the US picture sleeve featured a black-and-white photo of Lennon along with a prominent producer's credit for Spector, while the reverse had a similar picture of Ono. Promotion Following a year of highly publicised peace campaigning by the Lennons in 1969, Apple press officer was concerned that they had exhausted the media's interest in their causes. On 4 February 1970, Lennon and Ono staged a publicity stunt at the Black Centre in north London, where they donated a large plastic bag full of their hair, along with Apple's poster for the new single, to activist, in return for a pair of 's bloodstained boxing shorts. The 'final proof' of the Lennons' 'overexposeure', according to Taylor, was that there was a large press turnout for the event, yet 'nobody printed anything'.On 11 February, Lennon and Ono filmed an appearance on 's to promote 'Instant Karma!'
, accompanied by White, Voormann, Evans. While the other musicians mimed their contributions, Lennon sang a live vocal over a mix of the song's instrumental track, prepared by EMI engineer. This was the first appearance on the program by any member of the Beatles since 1966, as well as the public unveiling of the Lennons' new cropped look. Two versions of 'Instant Karma!' – known as 'knitting' and 'cue card' – were taped for Top of the Pops, and aired on 12 and 19 February, respectively.
When its similarity to 'All You Need Is Love' was pointed out to Lennon by a listener, shortly after the release of 'Instant Karma!' , Lennon acknowledged that he had been playing the chords from the 1967 song when writing the melody. In a subsequent interview on the New York radio station, Lennon said he had 'stolen the introduction' from 'Some Other Guy'. While the Beatles had been inactive as a group over the ensuing months, Harrison, and came together for the last time in January 1970 to record ' and complete ', for their inclusion on the soundtrack album accompanying the documentary film.
During his stay in Aalborg, Lennon kept in touch with Harrison by telephone but he did not return to London for these sessions. In Harrison's recollection, however, Preston was not present at this point.
He also says that Lennon played piano rather than guitar. Although authors such as, and Ribowsky state that Lennon played piano, some sources give electric piano as his keyboard instrument on the song. Lennon and Harrison had long been admirers of Spector's work in the 1960s, with and other vocal groups. Lennon later said that the Beatles had discussed using Spector before 1970 as an alternative to their usual producer,.
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