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  • Pretending
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  • eng
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  • 1989 songs
  • 1989 singles
  • Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one singles
  • Eric Clapton songs
  • Song recordings produced by Russ Titelman
  • Songs written by Jerry Lynn Williams
abstract
  • %22Pretending%22 is a rock song written and composed by Jerry Lynn Williams. It was released in 1989 on Eric Clapton's Journeyman as the first track of the album. The song was released as the lead single from the album, backed with %22Hard Times,%22 and reached #55 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the album's highest-charting single on that chart. It was also #1 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In the Netherlands, it reached #3 on the Dutch Tip 40 and #24 on the Dutch Top 40. Music journalist Astrid Keil recalls more than 250.000 sold copies worldwide. It became a live favorite.The song begins with a piano introduction. Clapton uses a wah wah pedal on the song. Author Marc Roberty describes the wah-wah solos as being %22superlative.%22 Roberty criticizes Steve Ferrone's drumming on the song for being too heavy handed. Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald praises the song's %22great guitar hook%22 and Clapton's %22great vocal and guitar performances%22 on the song. However, Greenwald believes that the song's arrangement is overdone, particularly the %22brassy synthesizers,%22 and feels that the song dated quickly due to its pop music elements.From the CD liner notes on Pretending: %22Jimmy Bralower - Drum Programming%22 Steve Ferrone is not listed as drummer on the song.
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  • Jerry Lynn Williams
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  • USRE19100016
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  • Russ Titelman
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  • 192
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  • 2812631
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  • english
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  • Reprise Records
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  • Pretending
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