Name: Without You I'm Nothing (Commentary)
Duration: 10 min 27 s
Description: Слушайте песню Without You I'm Nothing (Commentary) - David Bowie, Placebo онлайн с альбома Without You I'm Nothing в хорошем HiFi качестве с сервисом Звук. Продолжительность песни - 10:27. Год выхода - 2017

Without You I'm Nothing

David Bowie

Placebo

UNKLE

Without You I'm Nothing - UNKLE Remix

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Without You I'm Nothing (Commentary)

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Bono: Without You I Am Nothing, the version that we've decided to

Include in A Place For Us To Dream is our illustrious collaboration

With David Bowie. We'd already recorded the song for our second album

When David became interested. I remember the writing of the song was

Just... I mean, at the time we used to do a lot of writing at sound

Checks because we actually used to sound check, which we don't

Anymore. So I just remember over like maybe a period of six months

Playing around with this riff which would eventually... well, these

Chords, which would eventually become... these melancholy chords

Which would eventually become Without You I Am Nothing. Sometimes

Stef would chip in on the bass. That's sort of how it sort of grew

To... how it kind of evolved. What's interesting for me structurally

And as a songwriter is that it's actually... structurally, it's quite

Unique as far as a song goes because it's exactly the same, and this

Is totally unintentionally, but it's exactly the same as Happiness Is

A Warm Gun by The Beatles. None of the sections of the song repeat

Themselves. So if you go back and listen to The White Album

Happiness Is A Warm Gun, which is one of my favorite songs, there is

No chorus. There's a section, then it moves on to another section

Then it moves on to another section. And Without You I Am

Nothing does that, which is unusual because normally you have

A verse and then you have a chorus, then you have a verse

Then you have a chorus, then you have a middle eight, then you

Have a double chorus and that's your classic song structure

So that's A, B, A, B, C, C, C essentially. Well, Without You I

Am Nothing goes A, B, C, D, E. And I just think it's really...

It's cool that we have a structurally unusual song in our canon

Aron: I remember when you recorded that guitar. It was Without You I

Am Nothing, the album, out in real world in the fields. Well, not

Literally in the fields, but away from any city or pub. And we had

A troubled relationship with our producer. And we would kill some of

The songs. He would make us do 60 or 70 takes of a track, and that is

A practice that we've never done since because you can easily squeeze

The life and the spark out of a song in the studio. And there were

Days where we would be feeling the weight of our incommunication and

The slight troubled relations we had with our producer. And I think

It wore us down. There was a certain wariness and melancholy. And I

Remember you just trying the sound for the guitar

Part for Without You I Am Nothing and that

Was recorded. And that ended up being the take

Aron: So there's... yeah, whenever I hear that, I remember where

I was standing when Brian played it and recorded it. And I could

Kind of feel him going, "Fucking hell, this is a hard recording

Session and I'm gonna sort of feel my way through this guitar

Part." And it is a melancholy and quite beautifully dark guitar

Part. So it was one of those moments that was... sometimes

You have magic moments in the studio, and that was one of them

Bono: Well, I was on holiday in Barbados, and I went there with my

Brother. And so there we were, fast asleep in Barbados kind of thing

And I'm woken up by my brother and the first thing I see is he's

Shoving a telephone receiver in my face. And I'm like, "What are you

Doing? Shit. Go away." And he's holding his hand over the receiver

And he's going, "No, no, no, no. It's David Bowie." And I'm like

"Huh? Really? I guess I better take it." And that was the thing

About David, is that it was never... If he had an idea, he

Would call you. It would be him. You wouldn't hear about it

Through his management or whatever. If he was excited about

Something, and other people have said that, he would call you

Personally, straight away. And so there I am, I'm still kind of

Half asleep and David Bowie's on the line and this is all very

Very surreal. Of course, I know him because we've been... it's

1999 And we first started touring him... touring with

Him in 1995, yeah? And, uh, I'm like, "Hello, David

. How the hell did you track me down?" You know?

And he's going, "Oh, don't worry about that. Now

Anyway, listen, that song of yours, Brian, '

Without You I'm Nothing.'" And I'm like, "Yeah, uh..."

He's like, "Well, I really, really like it, so I've written

My own harmony part." And I'm like, "What?! Huh? Okay!"

"And I'd really like to sing it with you. Let's do it at the BRIT

Awards." And I went, "Uh... I don't think that's really gonna work

You know. It's not really... it's, it's a bit melancholy for the BRIT

Awards. Um, why don't we do something else at the BRIT Awards, uh

Together, and, um, why don't we record your vocal harmony part and

Release a special single together?" And he went, "Yeah, I think

You're probably right, Brian. Yeah, okay, so, uh, I'm gonna have to

Make a few phone calls. Um, I might bring Tony in on this one. You

Know, Tony Visconti." And he was just like, "What the hell is

Happening? Uh, okay, speak to you soon." And, uh, then yeah, a couple

Months later we were flying to New York to, yeah, record, record '

Without You I'm Nothing' again with, uh, with David Bowie. It wasn't

Terrifying because, uh, to be in the studio with, with David Bowie

Um, because we'd gotten to know him really quite well by then, you

Know, so we were very kind of comfortable in his, in his presence

You know. Um, David was a very laid-back, down-to-earth guy, you

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