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"Not Now John"
Single by Pink Floyd
from the album The Final Cut
B-side"The Hero's Return"
ReleasedApril 1983 (1983-04)
RecordedJuly–December 1982
GenreHard rock[1]
Length5:02 (album version)
4:12 (single edit)
LabelHarvest (UK)
Columbia (US)
Songwriter(s)Roger Waters
Producer(s)
Pink Floyd singles chronology
"Pink Floyd – The Wall – Music from the Film"
(1982)
"Not Now John"
(1983)
"Learning to Fly" / "Terminal Frost"
(1987)

"Not Now John" is a song by the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, written by Roger Waters. It appears on the album The Final Cut (1983).[2][3] The track is the only one on the album featuring the lead vocals of David Gilmour, found in the verses, with Roger Waters singing the refrains and interludes, and was the only single released from the album (discounting "When the Tigers Broke Free", a non-album single retroactively added to the album in 2004). It reached No. 30 in the UK Singles Chart.

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Music video

In the Final Cut video EP, the video for the song depicts a Japanese boy walking through a factory searching for a soldier. The child is confronted by factory workers playing cards and geisha girls before he falls to his death from a scaffold and is discovered by a World War II veteran (played by Alex McAvoy, who also played the schoolteacher in Pink Floyd – The Wall). The video was directed by Waters' then brother-in-law, Willie Christie.[3]

Composition

It is the only track on the album not to feature exclusively Waters on lead vocals. Unlike the majority of other tracks on The Final Cut (1983), "Not Now John" takes an upbeat, driving, tempo – and hard rock style – for much of its duration. Gilmour and Waters split vocals duties, similar to the song "Comfortably Numb" from The Wall (1979), and they represent different "characters" or points of view – Gilmour is the self-serving ignorant layperson while Waters is the intellectual, responsible observer of the world's woes.[4]

"Not Now John" is notable for being one of the few Pink Floyd tracks to feature strong profanity, as the word "fuck" occurs in the album version of the song seven times: six times as part of the phrase "fuck all that", and near the end of the song as "Where's the fucking bar, John?".

Despite the specific references in other songs on the album to public figures of the time, the "John" of the title does not refer to any particular person named John. It is a British colloquial usage as a placeholder name, closely associated with blue-collar workers, where "John" can be employed informally in the same way as "mate", "pal", or "buddy" to address someone whose name is not known.

Single

"Not Now John" was released as a single in April 1983. The words "fuck all that" were overdubbed as "stuff all that" by Gilmour, Waters, and the female backing singers, while the "Where's the bar?" lyric is sung in Italian, Greek and French, as the single fades out before the English iteration.

"The Hero's Return" was released as the B-side, featuring an additional verse not included on the album. A 12" single was released in the UK, featuring the two 7" tracks on side 1 and the album version of "Not Now John" on side 2. The single hit number 30 in the UK and number seven on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

  1. "Not Now John" (single version) – 4:12
  2. "The Hero's Return (Parts I and II)" – 4:02[5]
  3. "Not Now John" (album version) – 4:56 (12" single only)[6]

Critical reception

In a review for The Final Cut (1983) on release, Kurt Loder of Rolling Stone described "Not Now John" as "one of the most ferocious performances Pink Floyd has ever put on record."[7] In a retrospective review of The Final Cut (1983), Rachel Mann of The Quietus described "Not Now John" as "fun, but musically crass and obvious," further saying "this is Surrey Blues rock as vapid as the views it seeks to satirize."[8]

Personnel

Pink Floyd

Additional musicians

See also

References

  1. ^ Moskowitz, David V. (2015). The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time: A Guide to the Legends Who Rocked the World. ABC-CLIO. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-4408-0340-6.
  2. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN 978-1-84195-551-3.
  3. ^ a b Mabbett, Andy (2010). Pink Floyd - The Music and the Mystery. London: Omnibus. ISBN 9781849383707.
  4. ^ Not Now John, Pink Floyd, Allmusic.
  5. ^ Not Now John (Side 1 record label). Pink Floyd. Harvest Records. 1983. 12har 5224 – via Discogs.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ Not Now John (Side 2 record label). Pink Floyd. Harvest Records. 1983. 12har 5224 – via Discogs.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. ^ Loder, Kurt (14 April 1983). "The Final Cut". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  8. ^ Mann, Rachel (17 June 2013). "30 Years On: Pink Floyd's The Final Cut Revisited". The Quietus. Retrieved 27 July 2017.

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