(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna

"Goodnight Vienna"
US picture sleeve
Single by Ringo Starr
from the album Goodnight Vienna
B-side	"Oo-Wee"
Released	2 June 1975 (US only)
Format	vinyl record 7"
Genre	Rock
Length	2:58 (single version)
Label	Apple Records
Writer(s)	John Lennon
Producer(s)	Richard Perry
Ringo Starr singles chronology
"Snookeroo" (1975) "Goodnight Vienna" (1975) "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll" (1976)
Goodnight Vienna track listing 11 tracks Side one "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" "Occapella" "Oo-Wee" "Husbands and Wives" "Snookeroo" Side two "All by Myself" "Call Me" "No No Song" "Only You (And You Alone)" "Easy for Me" "Goodnight Vienna (Reprise)"

"(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna", an up-tempo John Lennon composition, is the title track to Ringo Starr's 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. The final song on the album is "Goodnight Vienna (reprise)". Also released as a single, the single version is a medley combination of "(It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna" and "Goodnight Vienna (reprise)". The single was released in the US on 2 June 1975.^{[nb 1][1]}

The title song features John Lennon on opening count-in and piano, and Billy Preston on clavinet; and the Reprise song features Lennon's intro, 'OK, with gusto, boys, with gusto!'.

Composition and Lyrics

The composition was the second of five Lennon songs to be offered for inclusion on Starr's solo albums, (the others being "I'm the Greatest" from Ringo, "Cookin' (in the Kitchen of Love)" from Ringo's Rotogravure, and two unreleased songs intended for Stop and Smell the Roses).

The term "Goodnight Vienna" is English slang meaning "it's all over".

References

Footnotes

1. US Apple 1882^[1]

Citations

1. Harry, Bill (2004). The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia. London: Virgin Books. p. 183. ISBN 9780753508435.