Single:
All Those Years Ago entered the Australian singles chart* on 1 June 1981 and peaked at #9. The song was #64 on the Top 100 of 1981.
Album:
The song is on Somewhere in England which entered the Australian albums chart* on 22 June 1981 and peaked at #17.
Songwriter:
George Harrison
Producers:
George Harrison, Ray Cooper
Record label of Australian release:
Dark Horse
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
This is a tribute to John Lennon, who was shot and killed the year before. Harrison remained friends with Lennon after The Beatles broke up.
In an interview after John Lennon was shot, George said that he originally had written most of the lyrics for Ringo, but with Lennon’s assassination, he re-wrote the lyrics and told of how he looked up to John.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/george-harrison/all-those-years-ago
Wikipedia:
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 in November 1980. The line-up 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 re-written 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.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Those_Years_Ago
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.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Those_Years_Ago#Music_video
Lyrics:
I’m shouting all about love
While they treated you like a dog
When you were the one who had made it so clear
All those years ago
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