Owner of a Lonely Heart

"Owner of a Lonely Heart" is a song by the English progressive rock band Yes. It is the first track and single from their eleventh studio album 90125, released in 1983. Written primarily by guitarist Trevor Rabin, contributions were made to the final version by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, and producer Trevor Horn.

"Owner of a Lonely Heart" was released in October 1983, as the album's first single. It was a commercial success in the United States, becoming the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and its Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In 1984, the song reached No. 8 in the year-end charts in the US. The single was reissued various times throughout the 1980s and 1990s with different remix versions and B-sides. The song has been sampled by various artists including Michael Jackson, Frank Zappa and Max Graham, whose 2005 single reached No. 9 in the UK.

Origins

The first version was a four track version Rabin recorded at his home studio in London in 1980 (and which was eventually released in 2003 on his 90124 album). Rabin played all instruments on the demo as well as singing. In 2012, he would reminisce "I had a four-track recorder for demos, so you would record on the first and second tracks and then mix it to a third track. You would be making decisions based on what was coming, and sometimes those decisions would be wrong — but you couldn’t undo them. One of the things, a happy accident, was that all of the brass stabs and those weird things that happen on the record — they were just a product of what happened with the demo. When we started the record, in talking with Trevor Horn, he said we should retain that stuff. We’ll just record that really cleanly. I said I’d like to keep the levels very loud, and he was totally into that. That’s kind of how it evolved. All of the accidents on the demo, ended up on the record."

Album

Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, then from 1948 as vinyl LP records played at 33 ¹⁄₃ rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century albums sales have mostly focused on compact disc (CD) and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used in the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl.

An album may be recorded in a recording studio (fixed or mobile), in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to several years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately, and then brought or "mixed" together. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed "live", even when done in a studio. Studios are built to absorb sound, eliminating reverberation, so as to assist in mixing different takes; other locations, such as concert venues and some "live rooms", allow for reverberation, which creates a "live" sound. The majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at separate times while listening to the other parts using headphones; with each part recorded as a separate track.

90125

90125 is the eleventh studio album from the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 7 November 1983 on Atco Records. Following the group's disbanding in 1981, Chris Squire and Alan White formed Cinema with Trevor Rabin and former Yes member Tony Kaye. During the mixing stage of their new album Jon Anderson was invited to sing lead vocals, resulting in Cinema becoming the seventh line-up of Yes that lasted until 1988.

Named after its Atco catalogue number, 90125 remains Yes' most commercially successful album. It reached No. 5 in the U.S. where it sold over 3 million copies, and No. 16 in the UK. Four singles were released from 90125—"Owner of a Lonely Heart", "It Can Happen", "Changes", and "Leave It"; "Owner of a Lonely Heart" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. In 1985, "Cinema" won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and 90125 received a nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Yes toured the album from 1984–85 and spawned the concert film 9012Live and the live album 9012Live: The Solos. A collection of Rabin's early demos of some of the songs were released in 2003 as 90124. The album was remastered in 2004 with bonus tracks.

1983

1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade.

The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.

Events

January

Lonely Heart

Lonely Heart (さびしんぼう, Sabishinbou) is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Awards

7th Yokohama Film Festival

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