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His only hope is to devise a way to communicate with the hospital staff. Released two years after the death of friend and bassist Cliff Burton in a tragic bus accident in Sweden, the story of the veteran in "One" is a reflection of the grief and strife within Metallica following his passing. This is shown in the music video. The Kate Bush song "Running Up That Hill" is about making a deal with God to switch lives with your partner so there would be no more misunderstandings.

There is a anachronism in the video: It's set during World War I, but we hear the sound of helicopters in the song. He can't hear, see, smell, taste and he doesn't have arms or legs. Meaning of Metallica. Did this Eagle come up with the term "Parrothead"? The song also features heavy strobe lighting during the heavier half of the song, namely before the Hammett solo.

This was the first year a Grammy was awarded for Hard Rock/Metal Performance, and it went to Jethro Tull.
The song begins in 4/4 time, and later 3/4 as well as 2/4. They are certainly up there on the list of my favourite bands. Being trapping in ones body, ... Metallica is trying to portray what this would be like, not knowing if your awake, sleeping, dead, or remembering. His only hope is to devise a way to communicate with the hospital staff.

Written by band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, "One" is an anti-war song that portrays a World War I soldier who is severely wounded—arms and legs blown off by a landmine, blind and unable to speak or move—begging God to take his life. All Rights Reserved. [4] The band also performed the song alongside pianist Lang Lang at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014.

It features dialogue and several scenes from the 1971 film adaptation of Johnny Got His Gun. There is a second solo by Hammett halfway through the song, before lyrics cut out and the song gradually gets more heavy and distorted until the "machine gun" guitar build up (played alongside double bass drums) before the next, often highly praised, guitar solo by Hammett, and a final dual solo by Hammett and Hetfield. Pink wrote "Just Give Me A Reason" about how one partner can feel jilted over something trivial, like how her boyfriend passes her the butter.

In the second we find out that it is actually machinery and being “fed through the tube” that is keeping him alive. Newsted plays bass with his fingers at the start of the song, but later switches to a pick.

"I loved being murdered every night by that thing, man." For the first 20 seconds of the song there are a series of sound effects with a battle theme, an artillery barrage and helicopter are heard and continues slightly over a clean tone guitar intro by Hetfield before Kirk Hammett comes in over the top with a clean-toned solo. [3] Production of the song was done by the band alongside Flemming Rasmussen. The song also features heavy strobe lighting during the heavier half of the song, namely before the Hammett solo. "After seeing what the One video did for them, Metallica were just as interested in making videos as everyone else was," Burnstein added.