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〕 | Length = (album version) (single version) | Label = Atco | Writer = Trevor Rabin, Jon Anderson, , Trevor Horn | Producer = Trevor Horn | Certification = | Last single = "Into the Lens" (1980) | This single = "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (1983) | Next single = "Leave It" (1984) }} "Owner of a Lonely Heart" is a song by the progressive rock group Yes. It is the first track and single from their eleventh studio album ''90125'', released in 1983. Written primarily by guitarist Trevor Rabin, contributions were made to the final version by lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire and producer Trevor Horn. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" was released in October 1983, as the album's first single. It was a commercial success in the United States, becoming the band's first and only single to reach number one on ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart and the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song went to #62 on 5 November 1983 and climbed into the top 10 within 7 weeks. In 1984, the song made #8 on the year-end charts. The song has been sampled by various artists including Michael Jackson, Frank Zappa and Max Graham, whose 2005 single reached the top 10 in the UK chart. The single was reissued various times throughout the 1980s and 1990s with different remix versions and B-sides. ==Origins== The first version was a four track version Rabin recorded at his home studio in London in 1980 (and which was eventually released in 2003 on his ''90124'' album). Rabin played all instruments on the demo as well as singing. In 2012, he would reminisce "I had a four-track recorder for demos, so you would record on the first and second tracks and then mix it to a third track. You would be making decisions based on what was coming, and sometimes those decisions would be wrong — but you couldn’t undo them. One of the things, a happy accident, was that all of the brass stabs and those weird things that happen on the record — they were just a product of what happened with the demo. When we started the record, in talking with Trevor Horn, he said we should retain that stuff. We’ll just record that really cleanly. I said I’d like to keep the levels very loud, and he was totally into that. That’s kind of how it evolved. All of the accidents on the demo, ended up on the record."〔("Gimme Five: Trevor Rabin on 'Owner of a Lonely Heart', 'Anerley Road', 'Changes'" ) - article in ''SomeThing Else'' by Nick DeRiso, 28 June 2012〕 "Owner of a Lonely Heart" was turned down by various record companies, including Arista. (Rabin: "Clive Davis mentioned that the song was too strange, and would not be a hit. He suggested that I write stuff more like Foreigner and then come back. I never did."〔("I've bitten my lip for a long time": Trevor Rabin clears the air on Yes' 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' ) - article in ''Something Else!'', 25 September 2014〕) The song was first recognized as a potential hit when Rabin played the demo to Ron Fair (then a junior A&R man at RCA Records) who identified it as "a game changer" and offered Rabin an album deal on the strength of it. Although Rabin would assemble various songs for the deal he ultimately turned it down, opting instead to work with Chris Squire and Alan White and rework the material for what would eventually become ''90125''.〔 Rabin has also implied that the early song may have gained the revived Yes their 1980s record deal - "'Owner' was always the flagship song of the ''90125'' stuff, which I had been shopping around with and landed up being approached by Phil Carson from Atlantic."〔 Trevor Horn has claimed a significant part of the credit for the success of "Owner of a Lonely Heart", including recognising the song’s hit potential and salvaging it for the ''90125'' sessions. By Horn’s account, when Rabin played him the original tape of songs intended for ''90125'', "Owner of a Lonely Heart" was tucked away at the end and was only heard because Rabin had gone to the toilet and left the tape running. When Rabin returned, Horn had to persuade him that the song was likely to be a hit and should be used for the album.〔(Trevor Horn discusses "Owner of a Lonely Heart" ) (excerpt from a 2011 interview conducted by the Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid), YouTube〕 However, Horn also claims to have had serious reservations about Rabin’s inclinations toward "American rock" songwriting: despite hearing a hit chorus, he also suggests that "the song, as it originally was, was so awful that I was convinced that if we didn't put loads of whizz-bangs and gags all over the verse that no-one would ever listen to it."〔 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「Owner of a Lonely Heart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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