Jimmy Somerville, 2009, Jess-E Musique, Ltd. As far as versions of the song go, it was a fine, faithful cover, but the fact that I had to check multiple times to make sure I was really listening to Def Leppard, and not some generic band, spoke volumes”: “Even Joe Elliott didn’t sound like himself. “I wasn’t necessarily expecting the loud drums or guitars of ‘Armageddon It’ or ‘Photograph’ or ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me,’ but I was at least expecting something familiar in the band’s sound,” Garvin continues. What stood out about their version of ‘Hanging on the Telephone’ was how not like Def Leppard it sounded,” per Patrick Garvin of in 2016. “In 2006, Def Leppard released an album of covers, called Yeah!. Having just released the “Diamond Star Halos” album in May, Def Leppard relaxes (Joe Elliott, center). This percussion style also appeared on other power pop singles from the period, like the Romantics’ 1978 release that just preceded “What I Like About You,” “Tell It to Carrie.”
Let’s give it a try!’”īlondie employs “a double backbeat rhythm in its drumming pattern, meaning the ‘off’ beats alternate between a quarter note and two eighth-notes,” according to Theo Cateforis from Are We Not New Wave?. The song was indeed included on Blondie’s Parallel Lines in 1978 (in fact, it was the lead track), and went on to sell over a million copies in the US alone, peaking at #6 on Billboard ’s album chart.īlondie’s cover begins with a sound effect of a telephone ringing: The idea was proposed by producer Chapman, according to Kembrew McLeod in his 2016 publication, Blondie’s Parallel Lines (33 and 1/3) : “The Blondies all thought that was stupid and too gimmicky, but I said, ‘C’mon, guys, gimmicky? This is Blondie. Predictably, Lee gave them his blessing (with Debbie fronting Jack the utilities dough), and Blondie’s cover of the song (produced by Mike Chapman, who produced the landmark debut album by The Knack the following year) rose to #5 on the UK singles charts, and hit the Top 20 in Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In the pool, fully-clothed, Blondie photographed at the Bel Air Sands Hotel in Los Angeles, 1977. The song was originally demoed with local musicians in 1975 at the Different Fur studio in San Francisco’s Mission District. It may also refer to his prior relationships with the mothers of his first two children. The original “Hanging on the Telephone” was written by Lee in 1973, while he was living in San Francisco, and references the contentious relationship with the mother of the woman with whom he was living at the time, according to. In 1974, they started playing gigs as The Nerves, with Lee on guitar, Case on bass, and Collins on drums. Lee and Case liked each other's songs, and they eventually teamed up with transplanted New Jersey-ite Paul Collins. Initially having trouble getting gigs, he busked for change along Fisherman’s Wharf, where he met fellow street musician Peter Case, an aspiring singer/songwriter who had just moved from Buffalo. In the early ‘70s, Lee left home and traveled to San Francisco, hoping to make a career out of music, according to.
Jack Lee was born in Alaska on March 25, 1952.
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