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Music History Events: albums released December 28
• 1963 – STEVIE WONDER – ‘With a Song in My Heart’
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• 1976 – EMMYLOU HARRIS – ‘Luxury Liner’
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• 1976 – BREAD – ‘Lost Without Your Love’
• 1977 – SUICIDE – ‘Suicide’
• 1988 – VARIOUS ARTISTS – ‘Sub-Pop-200’
• 1990 – WILLY DEVILLE – ‘Victory Mixture’
• 2004 – JOHN LEGEND – ‘Get Lifted’
• 2005 – DRAGONFORCE – ‘Inhuman Rampage’
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Single 1970: ‘MOTHER’ (John Lennon)
On December 28, 1970, the single ‘Mother’ was released only in the United States, taken from John Lennon’s first solo album. The song was a cry of lament addressed to his parents that John was deprived of during his childhood: his father, Alf Lennon, abandoned the family as a child, while his mother, Julia Lennon, was hit by a drunk driver when John was 17. Lennon mourns his loss by contrasting his feelings with reality in verses such as ‘Mother, you had me/but I never had you’ or ‘Father, you left me/but I never left you’.
It was the second song that Lennon dedicated to his mother, the first of them being the song ‘Julia’, which appeared on the White Album. Lennon composed the song after spending four months attending primal therapy sessions given by psychotherapist Arthur Janov in Santa Monica, California.
The experience in Lennon’s words was described as ‘something more important to me than the Beatles’. On the album the song begins with a ringing of bells that was suppressed in the edition of the single due to its excessive length, as well as the final fade. Lennon plays piano and is accompanied by Ringo Starr on drums and Klaus Voorman on bass. The B-side contained the song ‘Oh why’ by Yoko Ono, and the single did not go beyond 43rd place on the Hot100. Other artists such as Barbra Streisand (1971), Mia Martini (1972), Maynard Ferguson (1972), Shelby Lynne (2001) and Christina Aguilera (2007) have recorded versions of ‘Mother’.
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