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"Myzsterious Mizster Jones" is a song from rock band Slade which was released as the third single from the 1985 album ''Rogues Gallery''. The song was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. It was produced by John Punter. ==Background== Following the band's Top 15 success with the late 1984 single "All Join Hands", the band's follow-up January 1985 single "7 Year Bitch" stalled at #60 in the UK chart after it was banned by the UK broadcasting media. It was hoped that the single would boost the band's popularity back up after the commercial failure of "7 Year Bitch". Despite a radio-friendly sound, the numerous TV appearances across Europe and a promo video, the single only peaked at #50 in the UK, spending a total of five weeks on the charts. The single was released just two weeks before ''Rogues Gallery'', originally entering the UK chart at #61. The following week the single had peaked at #50. By 6 April 1985, both "Myzsterious Mizster Jones" and ''Rogues Gallery'' were in the charts. Since ''Rogues Gallery'' had entered at #60, "Myzsterious Mizster Jones" fell back to #57, #60 and #70, respectively. The title of the song was purposely misspelled. Such misspellings were a hallmark of some of Slade's song titles during the early 1970s, but this was the band's first single with such a title for more than a decade. In a 1985 interview with Holder on Australian TV, Holder was asked ''"The current single Myzsterious Mizster Jones, what's that all about?"'' Holder replied ''"Oh, basically it's about a friend of mine from Wolverhampton who used to be a Hell's Angel actually, but I changed his name to protect the innocent cause I don't think he'd like a song about him. It's not knocking him, you know, but it's a song about him."'' The interviewer concluded ''"Okay. We'll have a look at it now."'' as the video was aired on Australian TV. In the September–December 1986 Slade International Fan Club magazine, Lea was interviewed on 18 September 1986 and was asked to share where he was when he wrote various Slade tracks. For "Myzsterious Mizster Jones", Lea stated it was written while he was talking to his brother in a pub. The interviewer had stated ''"It has been said that Jim can write a song anywhere, and at any time, so we asked Jim to recall where he was when he wrote some of Slade's songs. We learned that Jim sometimes gets some of his melodies whilst he is holding a conversation with someone..."'' Lea revealed ''"Oh yeah. "Myzsterious Mizster Jones" was written while I was talking to my brother in a pub. I was holding a conversation and wrote it at the same time."'' In the September–December 1986 Slade fan club magazine, the poll results were announced for the 1986 opinion poll based on Slade's material. For the top three best non-hit singles, "Myzsterious Mizster Jones" placed at #1. In the same poll, for the top three best single picture sleeves, "Myzsterious Mizster Jones" placed at #3.〔 During the mid-1990s, Ken Sharpe interviewed Jim Lea on Slade's entire career over the phone. In the interview the song was mentioned and Lea admitted that although he liked the track, it was never going to be a hit. After Lea spoke of the 1985 single "Do You Believe in Miracles", Sharpe had commented ''"Another one I thought from that same period, "Myzsterious Mizster Jones", I like that a lot, I think that should have been a... I think it was somewhat of a hit but it probably should have been bigger. Do you like that track?"'' Lea replied ''"Yeah, yeah, it's alright. You know, it's like, umm, being a sort of 'singles' person, you know, 45's are they were, I used to write in that mode, and that, I never saw that as a 45. "My Oh My" I did, and I wrote "My Oh My" while the other guys were tuning up in a dressing room before we went on stage."'' Later in the interview Lea mentioned the song again. He stated ''"When I came up with "Gudbuy T'Jane", I knew that was a single. I came up with "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", I knew it was a single, you know? "Cum on Feel the Noize", "Skweeze Me Pleeze Me", you know that's a single. I think it must have been similar for The Beatles, you know? There's no question what's going to be the single. And the worst singles are the ones like "Myzsterious Mizster Jones" which were never gonna be singles."'' Sharpe added ''"I like the song though actually."'' Lea continued ''"No, no, I sound very derogatory to my own material, I don't mean it like that. I like "Myzsterious Mizster Jones", but it was never, you know, 'wow that's a single', you know? It's just a good track."'' The song would later be covered by SAPO. 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「Myzsterious Mizster Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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