I Found Out
| "I Found Out" | ||||
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| Song by John Lennon from the album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Genre | Blues rock, hard rock | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | Apple/EMI | |||
| Writer | John Lennon | |||
| Producer | John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector | |||
| John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band track listing | ||||
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"I Found Out" is a song by the English musician John Lennon from his 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
Writing and recording
The song expresses Lennon's disillusionment with a world dominated by what he saw as false religion and idols, and warns against being taken in by such beliefs.
In common with another theme on the album, the song is also critical of Lennon's former band The Beatles. During the late 1960s, bandmate George Harrison became interested in Eastern mysticism; Lennon dismisses Harrison's beloved gurus and Hare Krishna mantra as "pie in the sky" and refers to "religion from Jesus to Paul".
The instrumentation, style, and production of the song are typical of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band era work. The song features a low, rumbling tremolo guitar, thumping drums, a rolling, minimal bass guitar line, and a scathing vocal delivery. The recording is bare-bones, in stark contrast to the heavy production of Lennon's later albums. It is influenced more heavily by blues music than other songs on Plastic Ono Band.
Personnel
The musicians who performed on the original recording were as follows:[1]
Popular culture
The song was covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon.
The song has also been recorded by Nathaniel Mayer on I Just Want to Be Held (2004).
References
- ↑ Blaney, John (2005). John Lennon: Listen To This Book. Guildford, Great Britain: Biddles Ltd. p. 58. ISBN 0-9544528-1-X.