| "I'm Stepping Out" | ||||
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 US picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by John Lennon | ||||
| from the album Milk and Honey | ||||
| B-side | "Sleepless Night" (Yoko Ono) | |||
| Released | ||||
| Recorded | 6 August 1980 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:05 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Songwriter | John Lennon | |||
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| John Lennon singles chronology | ||||
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"I'm Stepping Out" is the third and last single[3] from the final John Lennon and Yoko Ono album Milk and Honey. In it, Lennon celebrates his enthusiasm for the night life of New York City, and makes tongue-in-cheek reference to his "househusband" period. It reached No. 88 in the UK Singles chart, and in the US it peaked at No. 55 in the US Billboard Hot 100[4] and number 57 on the Cashbox Top 100.[5]
The B-side features Ono's "Sleepless Night."
"I'm Stepping Out" was the first song to be recorded when the sessions for Double Fantasy/Milk and Honey began at The Hit Factory in New York City on 7 August 1980.[6]
Cash Box said that the song "was a celebration for Lennon — to escape from the mundane lifestyle of a house-husband — and it is also a musical celebration for the listener which exhibits Lennon's innate talent for articulating universal emotions on three-and-a-half minutes of vinyl."[7] Cash Box also commented on the "accessible lyrics and a tight chorus that Lennon sings with abandon" and noted that the prologue and ending express Lennon's "witty side."[7]
Muriel Gray at Smash Hits said, "For an extraordinary man, John Lennon managed to write a lot of very ordinary material before he died. This is basic and dull, it barely merits criticism."[8]
This is the personnel as said.[3][9]
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