It was also, somewhat surprisingly, a favorite of the late John Lennon<\/a> during his affair with former assistant May Pang, which continued from the mid 1970s to the latter years of the decade .<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \u201cShe wrote in her book, Loving John, that they would lay in bed listening to \u2018Reminiscing,\u2019\u201d Goble says, \u201cand he was asking her to play it again and again and again. That was pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n Originally released as the second single from LRB\u2019s fourth album, Sleeper Catcher, \u201cReminiscing\u201d can be found on the new LRB compilation, Ultimate Hits<\/a>. Still in Melbourne where the band was formed, Goble has nothing but fond memories of \u201cReminiscing\u201d and all that came in its wake.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was inspired by my love of the \u201930s, \u201940s and \u201950s musicals, \u2019cause I was 12 years of age when we got a black-and-white television in Adelaide,\u201d Goble explains. \u201cThe programs I immediately loved were all the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers, Rogers and Hammerstein musicals \u2014 all of that American romantic era. A lot of my songwriting, but particularly \u2018Reminiscing,\u2019 was about the life I wished I had, putting myself into those situations I saw in the movies.<\/p>\n The song arrived in April 1977, when the group was in Melbourne for a TV appearance. \u201cWe were in the green room, just playing our guitars,\u201d Goble says. \u201cThe lead guitarist, David Briggs, was showing me some jazz chords<\/a>, one of which was a C9 chord, a shape I never knew about.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I came home after the television show, I picked up my Martin<\/a> 000-18 acoustic<\/a> and played that chord. Immediately, I had this melody and lyric, all at the same time, almost like it was a spiritual download that just flowed through me. In about a half an hour, the whole thing was finished, and I had this very different song with key changes and quite a lot of jazz chords \u2014 quite a sophisticated piece!\u201d<\/p>\n As Goble recalls, the Little River Band made two attempts at recording the song before they struck gold. \u201cThe keyboard player I wanted for it was Peter Jones, and he was not available,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I was forced to pick another player, and it didn\u2019t work. And then we did it with a second player and that didn\u2019t work out, either.<\/p>\n \u201cThen I heard Peter Jones had come back into town. So under protest from some of the guys, mainly from [vocalist] Glenn Shorrock, they reluctantly agreed to give it a third go. As soon as we sat down with Peter, the whole thing came together. Our guitarist Beeb [Birtles] played a syncopated riff from the third verse to the very end of the song, which I really loved. It was a lovely lift to the latter part of the record.\u201d<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \n Graeham Goble in Melbourne, Australia, February 19, 2008 (Image credit: Martin Philbey\/Redferns)<\/p>\n In addition to \u201cReminiscing,\u201d Sleeper Catcher included \u201cLady,\u201d another song with which the LRB would make their name in America. Although Goble and the band were convinced they\u2019d recorded something special, their label, Capitol, had trouble hearing it. \u201cWe waited five weeks with no response,\u201d Goble says.<\/p>\n \u201cThey eventually Telexed us and said, \u2018We think the album is great but we can\u2019t hear any singles\u2019 \u2014 and they had \u2018Reminiscing\u2019 and \u2018Lady,\u2019 our two biggest singles of all time!\u201d<\/p>\n Eventually the label decided to take a chance on \u201cReminiscing.\u201d \u201cThey said, \u2018But we really don\u2019t know if it will connect at all.\u2019 Within a couple weeks it went ballistic, right to number one in New York and number three on Billboard.\u201d<\/p>\n Goble calls it \u201cour pinnacle song. It\u2019s double any other song we\u2019ve ever had in terms of listens. It\u2019s been in a lot of movies, and a lot of soundtracks. Sinatra said he thought it was the best \u201970s song in the world, though he never recorded it.<\/p>\n \u201cBut when John Lennon calls your song one of his favorites, does that really matter?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not hard to get Little River Band guitarist Graeham Goble to reminisce about \u201cReminiscing.\u201d The 1978 single…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-331458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Graeham](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rsziPRaN3ZMHCqSyJe2cbm.jpg\")
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