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So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" is a song by the American rock band The Byrds, written by Jim McGuinn and Chris Hillman and included on their 1967 album, ''Younger Than Yesterday''. The song was released as a single on January 9, 1967 (''see'' 1967 in music) and reached #29 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 but failed to chart in the United Kingdom. The song was inspired by the hype surrounding the creation of The Monkees, whose television series had recently debuted in America and had launched the pre-fabricated band to international fame. The manufactured nature of the group caused Hillman and McGuinn to look upon the current state of the pop world with more than a little cynicism.〔
==Background and content==
Musically, one of the song's main hooks is provided by McGuinn's striking 12-string Rickenbacker guitar riff, while Hillman's driving bass-line forms the core of the song.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Keyboard Magazine )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=ByrdWatcher: A Field Guide to the Byrds of Los Angeles )〕 Hillman has stated that he composed the song's bass guitar part during a recording session for South African musician Hugh Masekela.〔 The song also features the trumpet playing of Masekela, which represents the first use of brass on a Byrds recording.〔〔 In addition, "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" features the sound of hysterical teenage pop fans screaming. These screams were recorded at an August 15, 1965 Byrds' concert in Bournemouth by the band's publicist, Derek Taylor, at McGuinn's request.〔
''Rolling Stone'' editor David Fricke has noted that although the song's lyrics are heavily sarcastic, beneath the playful cynicism there is a deeper, implicit irony to the song; The Byrds had, themselves, achieved almost overnight success with the release of their debut single, a cover version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." However, the band's members all knew, from their common bitter personal experiences, that the most difficult part of success was in ''staying'' successful, staying ahead of the curve artistically, and staying sane under the immense pressure of stardom.〔
During an interview with music journalist Pete Frame, McGuinn noted, "Some people have accused us of being bitter for writing that song, but it's no more bitter than 'Positively 4th Street.' In fact, it isn't as bitter as that. We were thumbing through a teen magazine and looking at all the unfamiliar faces and we couldn't help thinking: 'Wow, what's happening...all of a sudden here is everyone and his brother and his sister-in-law and his mother and even his pet bullfrog singing rock 'n' roll.' So we wrote 'So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star' to the audience of potential rock stars, those who were going to be, or who wanted to be, and those who actually did go on to realize their goals."
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