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Crippled Inside

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"Crippled Inside"
Song by John Lennon
from the album Imagine
Released9 September 1971
Recorded26 May 1971
Genre
Length3:47
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)John Lennon
Producer(s)John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector
Official audio
"Crippled Inside" (Remastered 2010) on YouTube

"Crippled Inside" is a song by British rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine.

Background

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Lennon recorded "Crippled Inside" on 26 May 1971 at Ascot Sound Studios, during the sessions for his Imagine album.[1] Robert Christgau believed its "good-time ricky-tick" rhythm lent the song a "folk-rock in disguise" identity.[2]

The melody of the song's bridge is very similar to the 1964 Koerner, Ray & Glover rendition of the traditional song "Black Dog".[3]

Covers

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The jam band Widespread Panic covered the song a number of times during their Summer 2007 Tour, with the band contributing a version to the benefit album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.[citation needed]

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Madinger, Chip; Raile, Scott (2015). LENNONOLOGY Strange Days Indeed - A Scrapbook Of Madness. Chesterfield, MO: Open Your Books, LLC. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-63110-175-5.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "John Lennon: Imagine". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  3. ^ Sulpy, Doug (2007). Drugs, divorce, and a slipping image : the unauthorized story of the Beatles' "Get back" sessions. The 910. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-9643869-8-3.
  4. ^ "Interview with John Tout, May 1998".