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Life at 33 1/3: Music from a lost weekend

27 August, 2015 - 0 Comments

Blame it on the bottle, Harry Nilsson makes another phenomenal attempt to dismantle his own career. It had all been eccentric career moves and nonstop partying since “Without You” stunned the world and made him a star back in 1972. Bringing along ex-beatles John and Ringo (sometimes George and Paul stopped by as well) and a trail of thirsty celebrities (like Keith Moon) as cheerleaders, wasn’t the smartest thing to do, at least according to his doctor and his record company. RCA probably thought their star had gone insane. I don’t think “Son Of Dracula” (1974) is Mariah Carey’s favorite album (or movie), to put it that way.

“Pussy Cats” was born during John Lennon’s 18-month “lost weekend” in Los Angeles. Out on his own he turned into your drinking buddy from hell, having a lot of catching up to do. John and Harry triggered each other in their drunken stupors, feeding the gossip press with marvelous scandals. In between fistfights, heckling and being thrown out of night cubs with a sanitary pad on his head, John offered to produce Harry’s next album. Not surprisingly it turned into an open doors session, party time, drinks and drugs and a gallery of famous people who stopped by for a piece of the madness. Now and then they even created some music. In 1974 it was definitely not advisable to place Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr in the same room. 

Lennon woke up during the chaos and realized that things were getting out of hand big time. So he brought the tapes and a very jagged Nilsson with him to New York to regain focus. It must have worried him that Nilsson’s voice sounded broken, but they probably didn’t discuss it. Actually it was more serious than John was aware of: Harry had ruptured one of his vocal cords during all the partying, but he didn’t dare to tell John. 

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