Shaved Fish

It was released at the time as a single only in the United States, where it peaked at number one on the Record World Top 100, number two on the Cashbox Top 100 and number three on the Billboard Hot 100.

Four years later, it was released as a single in the UK to promote John Lennon, The Beatles, compilation album Shaved Fish, and it got to number six on the UK singles chart.

It would later go on to top the chart following his murder in 1980.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number three on Your Friend and Mine, their 2004 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Um, it was something which resonated with me particularly, you know.

And, um, but I was lucky that my sister was nearly two years older than me, so she had all those David Bowie albums, and she had the, um, High Tide Green Grass by The Stones, and Shaved Fish by John Lennon, and the Neil Young albums.

And it was a really good, uh [chuckles] fortuitous-

Yeah

God, she was hip.

But yes, I ...

My brother had Shaved Fish as by, by John Lennon, Walls and Bridges as well, so-

Yeah