|
"Ivory Tower" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1986 album, ''No Guru, No Method, No Teacher''. The song was also released as a single with the B-side "A New Kind of Man", from his previous album ''A Sense of Wonder''. It charted at #21 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1986. Clinton Heylin writes this about the song "A chorus about how tough 'It really must be/ To be me, to see like me, to feel like me' threatens the spirituality self-effacing mood he had previously maintained."〔Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p.395〕 Biographer John Collis takes the same viewpoint by saying "Ivory Tower, totally breaks the mold - it's an r'n'b shaker just like those produced by the Van Morrison of old, though now he suffers from self pity: "Don't you know the price I have to pay/Just to do everything I have to do..."〔Collis, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, p166〕 ==Personnel on original release== *Van Morrison - vocal *June Boyce - backing vocals *Richie Buckley - tenor saxophone *Martin Drover - trumpet *David Hayes - bass *Rosie Hunter - backing vocals *Jeff Labes - piano *Chris Michie - guitar *John Platania - guitar *Bianca Thornton - backing vocals *Jeanie Tracy - backing vocals *Baba Trunde - drums 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「Ivory Tower (Van Morrison song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|