You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
"You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory" is a song released in 1978 by Johnny Thunders. The title was taken from a line in the "Better Living Through TV" episode of the sitcom The Honeymooners[1]. It is considered by many to be his signature song.
| "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" | |
|---|---|
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| Single by Johnny Thunders | |
| from the album So Alone | |
| B-side | "Hurtin'" |
| Released | 1978 |
| Genre | Punk rock |
| Length | 3:48 |
| Label | Real Records ARE3 |
| Songwriter(s) | Johnny Thunders |
The ballad has been interpreted to be about Thunders’ heroin addiction, and about his romance with Sable Starr. However, according to Nina Antonia's biography, Johnny Thunders...In Cold Blood, the song was written before he was even a member of the New York Dolls, and years before he ever tried heroin.
Peter Perrett, from the English new wave band The Only Ones, supplied guitar and backing vocals.
Covers
- Guns N' Roses covered the song on their album, "The Spaghetti Incident?". All the instruments on this version were performed by Duff McKagan.
- Giant Sand covered the song on the album Ballad of a Thin Line Man (1986).
- Johnny Thunders' friend Michael Monroe, of Hanoi Rocks, covered the song on his debut solo album, Nights Are So Long (1987).
References
- "Random Obscurities". fms-mag.com.
External links
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