Nobody Told Me
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| "Nobody Told Me" | ||
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| Single by John Lennon | ||
| from the album Milk and Honey | ||
| Released | 1984 | |
| Format | 7" vinyl;
12" vinyl (promotional only) |
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| Genre | Rock | |
| Label | Polydor Records | |
| Producer(s) | John Lennon & Yoko Ono | |
| Chart positions | ||
| John Lennon singles chronology | ||
| "Love" (from the 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band) (1982) | "Nobody Told Me" (1984) |
"Borrowed Time" (1984) |
"Nobody Told Me" is a John Lennon song, featured as the first single released from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Milk and Honey album in 1984. The song was originally written for Ringo Starr to include on his Stop and Smell the Roses album, but Lennon was killed before the song could be used. "Nobody Told Me" was Lennon's last single to reach the top ten on Billboard magazine's Hot 100.
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 Khatmandu".
Another line in the song is "There's a UFO 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.".
[edit] References
- Milk and Honey at All Music Guide.
- Songfacts on "Nobody Told Me".
- Walls and Bridges discography on JPGR
