In Another Land

"In Another Land" is a song by The Rolling Stones, and the third track on their album Their Satanic Majesties Request. It was released as a single a week before the album.

Written by bassist Bill Wyman, "In Another Land" is the only Rolling Stones song to feature Wyman on lead vocals, and one of only three Rolling Stones songs to be written by him (the other being "Downtown Suzie" and the unreleased "Goodbye Girl"). The single was released in December 1967, credited to Bill Wyman, with the Stones' "The Lantern" as the B-side. It peaked at number 87 on the United States pop chart.

Background

The song was recorded on a night when Wyman had shown up to the studio and found that the session had been cancelled. Feeling frustrated that he had potentially wasted time in driving to the studio, engineer Glyn Johns asked him if he had anything that he'd like to record. "...I'd been messing with this song. It was a bit... what I thought was kind of spacy, you know... a bit kind of Satanic Majesties-like. And psychedelic in a way."

In Another Land (album)

In Another Land is an album recorded by Larry Norman and released in 1976. It is the third album in Norman's "trilogy," which began with Only Visiting This Planet and continued with So Long Ago the Garden. The album contains some of Norman's most well-known work.

History

In 1975 Norman recorded In Another Land, the third album in his trilogy, which was released in 1976 through his own Solid Rock label and distributed through Word Records, making it "the first of his albums to be released on a Christian label". However, according to Norman, "In Another Land, was executorially censored by the "mother company" which insisted on removing any music they felt was "too negative" or "too controversial." Commercial pressure from Norman's "American publisher and American and European distributors" forced Norman to remove four songs from In Another Land: "I Dreamed that I Died", "Looking for the Footprints", "Top 40 Survey", and "You'll Never Find No One (Who Loves You Like I Do", as they believed that Norman had included too many songs, and that the deleted songs could be released on his next album. One of the songs included on this album was "The Sun Began to Rain" (The Son Began to Reign), an allegory written by Norman, was "knocked out ... in just over a minute" with British comedian Dudley Moore on piano. In a 1980 interview Norman explained the purpose of In Another Land: