Difference between revisions of "Run for Your Life"
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{{cquote|I never liked 'Run For Your Life,' because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from — this is a very vague connection — from 'Baby Let’s Play House.' There was a line on it — I used to like specific lines from songs — 'I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man' — so I wrote it around that but I didn’t think it was that important.|John Lennon, [http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/John_Lennon_Part2.aspx ''Rolling Stone'' interview, by Jann Wenner]|1971}} | {{cquote|I never liked 'Run For Your Life,' because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from — this is a very vague connection — from 'Baby Let’s Play House.' There was a line on it — I used to like specific lines from songs — 'I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man' — so I wrote it around that but I didn’t think it was that important.|John Lennon, [http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/John_Lennon_Part2.aspx ''Rolling Stone'' interview, by Jann Wenner]|1971}} | ||
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'''Check out "classic" Elvis performing 'Baby Let's Play House'...''' | '''Check out "classic" Elvis performing 'Baby Let's Play House'...''' | ||
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==Additional Resources== | ==Additional Resources== | ||
| − | * [ | + | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_for_Your_Life Wikipedia Entry] |
| − | * [ | + | * [https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/rfyl.shtml Alan W. Pollack's Musicological Analysis] |
* [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/run-for-your-life About 'Run For Your Life' - Beatles Music History] | * [http://www.beatlesebooks.com/run-for-your-life About 'Run For Your Life' - Beatles Music History] | ||
[[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Rubber Soul]] | [[Category:Songs]][[Category:John Lennon]][[Category:Rubber Soul]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:11, 7 May 2025
| "Run for Your Life" | ||||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||||
| Album | Rubber Soul | |||
| Released | 3 December 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 12 October 1965, EMI Studios, London |
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| Genre | Folk rock, pop rockTemplate:Sfn | |||
| Length | 2:18 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Writer | Lennon/McCartney | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
| Rubber Soul track listing | ||||
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| “ | It has a line from an old Presley song. 'I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man' is a line from an old blues song that Presley did once. Just sort of a throw-away song of mine that I never thought much of... but it was always a favourite of George's. | „ |
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—John Lennon, The Playboy Interviews, 1980 |
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| “ | John was always on the run, running for his life. He was married; whereas none of my songs would have 'catch you with another man.' It was never a concern of mine, at all, because I had a girlfriend and I would go with other girls, it was a perfectly open relationship so I wasn't as worried about that as John was. A bit of a macho song. It was largely John's. | „ |
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—Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, p.279, 1994 |
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| “ | I never liked 'Run For Your Life,' because it was a song I just knocked off. It was inspired from — this is a very vague connection — from 'Baby Let’s Play House.' There was a line on it — I used to like specific lines from songs — 'I’d rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man' — so I wrote it around that but I didn’t think it was that important. | „ |
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—John Lennon, Rolling Stone interview, by Jann Wenner, 1971 |
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Check out "classic" Elvis performing 'Baby Let's Play House'...
