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"It's My Life" is a song written by Brill Building songwriters Roger Atkins and Carl D'Errico. The song was originally performed by English R&B band The Animals, who released it as a single in October 1965 (see 1965 in music).〔 The song became a hit in several different countries and has since been recorded by multiple artists. ==Animals original== D'Errico, who wrote the music, and Atkins, who wrote the lyrics, were professional songwriters associated with the greater Brill Building scene in New York City. By 1965 they were working for Screen Gems Music, but had only found minor success at best. "It's My Life" was written specifically for the Animals as their producer Mickie Most was soliciting material for the group's next recording sessions.〔 (Other Animals hits to come out of this Brill Building call were "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and "Don't Bring Me Down".〔). It would become D'Errico and Atkins' best-known work.〔 The Animals' recording was propelled by a bass guitar riff from Chas Chandler, soon joined by an electric twelve-string guitar riff from Hilton Valentine; in the view of musicologist Walter Everett, the doubled line gave the song its strength. Alan Price's organ gave the record that sound that distinguished the Animals from other "British Invasion" groups, differing from Dave Clark Five's Mike Smith's through its darker timbre. Music writer Dave Marsh compared the dual part to a rock version of pointillism.〔 Then lead singer Eric Burdon's low-pitched, gruff vocal〔 entered with lyrics that author James E. Perrone thought rhetorically matched Burdon's origins from Tyneside in the working class North East England: : ''It's a hard world to get a break in : ''All the good things have been taken : ''But girl there are ways to make certain things pay : ''Though I'm dressed in these rags : ''I'll wear sable some day The song then built up to a musical climax in the chorus, with Burdon complemented by response vocals from Chandler and keyboardist Dave Rowberry: : ''But baby! (Baby!) Remember! (Remember!) : ''It's my life and I'll do what I want : ''It's my mind and I'll think what I want "It's My Life" was visually premiered on the US television show ''Hullabaloo'' in autumn 1965, where the group sang live vocals against canned music on a den-type set that featured attractive young women sticking their heads through holes in the wall, where normally animal heads would be mounted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kT13WXxG8 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=- )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3GNKUE-d9c )〕 In Marsh's view, "It's My Life" was one of a wave of songs in 1965, by artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, that ushered in a new role for rock music as a vehicle for common perception and as a force for social consciousness. Writer Craig Werner sees the song as reflecting the desire on the part of both the Animals and their audience to define themselves apart from the community they came from. Writer Dave Thompson includes the song in his book ''1000 Songs that Rock Your World'', saying simply, "There is no angrier declaration of independence than this." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It's My Life (The Animals song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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