For a Rocker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| “For a Rocker” | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||||||||||||
| Single by Jackson Browne from the album Lawyers in Love |
||||||||||||||
| Released | 1983 | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1982-1983 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:05 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Asylum | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Jackson Browne | |||||||||||||
| Jackson Browne singles chronology | ||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
"For a Rocker" is a 1983 single by the singer Jackson Browne. It was released in his 7th album Lawyers in Love. It charted at number eight on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was the third single released from Lawyers in Love. The song is also the eighth and last track from the album.
The lyrics were inspired, at least in part, by the death of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, who was a friend of Browne's.
The song was something of a departure for Browne, a straight-out uptempo party number: "I got a shirt so unbelievably bright, I'm gonna dig it out and wear it tonight." Rolling Stone among others commented on its apparent attempt to emulate that aspect of Bruce Springsteen's work,[1] and indeed Browne used it to close out concerts in the arenas he was now playing. As the magazine and others noted, however, it did not quite have the verve or memorability of its model, and in the decades that followed it failed to gain a slot in the classic rock rotation and has been largely forgotten.
[edit] Chart positions
| Charts | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 45 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 8 |
[edit] References
- ^ Christopher Connelly, "Lawyers in Love", September 29, 1983.
