In Another Land

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For the Larry Norman album, see In Another Land (album).

"In Another Land"
London
Songwriter(s)Bill Wyman
Producer(s)The Rolling Stones
Bill Wyman US singles chronology
"In Another Land"
(1967) 		"White Lightnin'"
(1974)
The Rolling Stones US singles chronology
"Dandelion"
(1967) 		"In Another Land"
(1967) 		"She's a Rainbow"
(1967)
Their Satanic Majesties Request track listing
10 tracks

Side one

  1. "Sing This All Together"
  2. "
    Citadel
    "
  3. "In Another Land"
  4. "2000 Man"
  5. "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)"

Side two

  2. "She's a Rainbow"
  3. "The Lantern"
  4. "Gomper"
  5. "2000 Light Years from Home"
  6. "On with the Show"

"In Another Land" is a song by

London Records
released it as a single a week before the album.

Written by bassist

Cash Box Top 100
singles chart, on which it was credited to Bill Wyman.

Background

The song was recorded on a night when Wyman had shown up at the studio and found that the session had been cancelled. Feeling frustrated that he had potentially wasted time in driving there, engineer Glyn Johns asked him if he had anything that he'd like to record. "I'd been messing with this song. It was a bit ... what I thought was kind of spacy, you know ... a bit kind of Satanic Majesties-like. And psychedelic in a way."[attribution needed]

Lyrically, Wyman stated that "The idea for the song is about this guy who wakes up from a dream and finds himself in another dream."[attribution needed] The song describes events that transpire in a dreamlike state:

We walked across the sand
And the sea and the sky and the castles were blue
I stood and held your hand
And the spray flew high and the feathers floated by
I stood and held your hand[3]

Johns showed the song to Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Brian Jones, who all liked it and decided to include it on the record.

The musicians on the song are Wyman on lead vocals, with both Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott of the Small Faces on guitar and backing vocals,[4] Nicky Hopkins on keyboards, Charlie Watts on drums, and Jagger adding backing vocals.[1]

At the conclusion of the track as heard on the album, Wyman himself can be heard snoring. He was unaware this had been tagged onto his song until he first played the completed album. He learned later that one night when he had fallen asleep in the studio, Jagger and Richards miked him up and recorded him snoring, and stuck it onto his track as a joke. This does not appear on the single.[citation needed]

Reception

rock ballad
material that should prove a monster" and as "a weirdy that can't miss."
Cash Box said that the song enters the "electrical-kaleidoscopic realm" and incorporates "vocal reverb, use of thudding rhythmics and a good melody."[6]

Personnel

Source:[7]

The Rolling Stones

Additional musicians

Citations

  1. ^ a b Eder 1989, p. 72.
  2. ^ https://www.billboard.com/artist/bill-wyman/
  3. ^ Eder 1989, p. 51.
  4. ISBN 1-900924-44-7
    .
  5. ^ "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. 2 December 1967. p. 87. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  6. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 2 December 1967. p. 22. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  7. ISBN 978-0-316-31773-3. Archived
    from the original on 19 August 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

References
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