Nobody Told Me

Nobody Told Me
"Nobody Told Me"
Single by John Lennon
from the album Milk and Honey
B-side "O' Sanity" (Yoko Ono) (US)
"I'm Stepping Out" (UK)
Released 6 January 1984 (US)
30 April 1990 (UK)
Format

7" vinyl

12" vinyl (promotional only)
Recorded 1980
Genre Rock
Length 3:35
Label Polydor
Writer(s) John Lennon
Producer John Lennon & Yoko Ono
John Lennon singles chronology
"Love"
(1982)
"Nobody Told Me"
(1984)
"Borrowed Time"
(1984)

"Nobody Told Me" is a song by the British musician John Lennon. Recorded (but uncompleted) shortly before his death in 1980, the song was later completed by Lennon's widow Yoko Ono in 1983 and released as the first single from Lennon and Ono's album Milk and Honey in 1984. The song was later released in the UK in 1990, b/w "I'm Stepping Out".[1] The song was originally written for Ringo Starr to include on his 1981 album Stop and Smell the Roses, but Lennon died before the song could be used.

"Nobody Told Me" was Lennon's last new single to reach the UK Top 10, peaking at #6 (although a reissue of "Imagine reached #3 in December 1999). The single was also Lennon's last US Top 10 hit, peaking at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was his third single to enter the US Top 10 posthumously.

The B-side features Yoko Ono's "O'Sanity", also from the Milk and Honey album.

The lyrics make reference to "a little yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu" which is similar to a line from J. Milton Hayes' poem entitled The Green Eye of the Yellow God. Hayes' line was "There’s a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu".

Another line in the song is "There's UFO's over New York and I ain't too surprised", apparently a reference to a UFO sighting Lennon had back in 1974. He made reference to this in the liner notes to his 1974 album Walls and Bridges with the message: "On the 23rd August 1974 at 9 o'clock I saw a U.F.O. - J.L.".

The line "Nobody told me there'd be days like these..." is in contrast to the old adage "My mother told me there'd be days like this."

The promo video for the single was made up of clips of footage from Lennon's other videos, as are most posthumous Lennon videos.

Cover versions

  • The Flaming Lips recorded a version for the 1995 John Lennon tribute album Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon.
  • The benefit album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur contained a version by Big & Rich.

References


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