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"Break My Stride" is a song performed by American recording artist Matthew Wilder. It was released in August 1983 as the lead single from his debut album, I Don't Speak the Language , and became a major worldwide hit single for him in late 1983 and spring 1984, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Cash Box Top 100.
Matthew Wilder (né Weiner; January 24, 1953) [1] is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. In early 1984, his single "Break My Stride" hit No. 2 on the Cash Box chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Break My Stride" (Matthew Wilder, Greg Prestopino) - 3:04 "The Kid's American" (1983) (Wilder) - 4:36 "I Don't Speak the Language" (Wilder, Barbara Hyde) - 4:45 "Love Above the Ground Floor" (Wilder, Prestopino) - 4:13 "World of the Rich and Famous" (Wilder, Roscoe Beck) - 4:43 "Ladder of Lovers" (Wilder, Prestopino) - 4:04 "I Was There ...
[7] [8] Beatles author Ian MacDonald speculates that the guitar arpeggios at the end of the track were influenced by "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and the middle section of "Here Comes the Sun", and that the overall structure was inspired by Lennon's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" from the previous year's album The Beatles, which also joined ...
[15] [16] [4] Not wanting to break stride, Lennon shelved the tapes and completed work on Walls and Bridges. [6] [15] With Walls and Bridges coming out first, Lennon had reneged on his deal with Levy, and Levy threatened to refile his lawsuit, but Lennon explained to Levy what had happened, and assured him that the covers album was indeed in ...
Harrison likened "If I Needed Someone" to "a million other songs" that are based on a guitarist's finger movements around the D major chord. [22] [nb 3] The song is founded on a riff played on a Rickenbacker 360/12, [24] [25] which was the twelve-string electric guitar that McGuinn had adopted as the Byrds' signature instrument after seeing Harrison playing one in A Hard Day's Night.
The unusual chord progression is an example of the Beatles' use of chords for added harmonic expression, [28] a device that Harrison adopted from Lennon's approach to melody. [29] Musicologist Walter Everett describes the composition as "a tour de force of altered scale degrees". He adds that, such is the ambiguity throughout, "its tonal ...
In 1999, Atom and His Package covered the song on the album Making Love (with altered lyrics) as "P.P. (Doo-Doo)". When Mojo released Abbey Road Now! in 2009, as part of the magazine's series of CDs of Beatles albums covered track-by-track by modern artists, "Polythene Pam" was covered by Cornershop alongside "Mean Mr. Mustard". [16]