"My Man"
Single by Yoko Ono
from the album It's Alright (I See Rainbows)
B-side"Let the Tears Dry"
Released1 November 1982 (US)[1]
26 November 1982 (UK)[1]
Recorded1982
Genre
Length3:58
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)Yoko Ono
Producer(s)Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono singles chronology
"Goodbye Sadness"
(1981)		 "My Man"
(1982)		 "Never Say Goodbye"
(1983)

"My Man" is a 1982 single by Yoko Ono from the album It's Alright (I See Rainbows) in a new wave/calypso style. "Let the Tears Dry" appeared on the B-side.[2] The song was originally written in 1980.[1]

Yoko wrote about the song when it was included on her 1992 boxset Onobox:

MY MAN was originally called MY PAPA because I referred to John as “Papa” when I spoke about him to my Japanese speaking friends, just as John started to sometimes call me “Mother” after Sean was born. John thought I should not call the song MY PAPA because there was already a song called that. “What about MY OLD MAN? ” he said. That didn’t seem quite right. We laughed. I had kept the song on the backburner and changed it to MY MAN at the time of the recording.

— Yoko Ono, "ONOBOX by Yoko Ono".

Cash Box said that it is one of Ono's catchiest pop songs.[3] Billboard recommended it.[4]

Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci rated it as Ono's 8th best song.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Onobox (liner notes). Yoko Ono. Rykodisc. 1992. RCD 10224/29.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ↑ "Yoko Ono – My Man". Discogs.
  3. ↑ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. November 13, 1982. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  4. ↑ "Top Single Picks". Billboard. November 20, 1982. p. 64. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  5. ↑ Gallucci, Michael (18 February 2013). "Top 10 Yoko Ono Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 2022-06-05.



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