When John and Yoko moved to New York City in August 1971, they initially stayed at the St Regis Hotel.While there John recorded several song demos,including a song named Shoeshine.
The piece was a simple boogie rocker, including snippets from Gary US Bonds' Quarter To Three. It also featured the lines "Just got to give me some rock 'n' roll/Well the people were dancing like they were mad", which Lennon reworked for Meat City two years later.
In the early summer of 1973 John recorded home demos of several songs which ended up on Mind Games,one of which was Meat City.He taped two versions on an electric guitar; it was a blues-based boogie, and contained a riff which he later used towards the end of another song,Steel And Glass.
9 years ago
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