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"You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" is a song released in 1978 by Johnny Thunders. The title was taken from a line in the "Better Living Through TV" episode of the sitcom The Honeymooners.[1] It is considered by many to be his signature song.

"You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory"
Single by Johnny Thunders
from the album So Alone
B-side	"Hurtin'"
Released	1978
Genre	Punk rock
Length	3:48
Label	Real Records ARE3
Songwriter(s)	Johnny Thunders

The ballad has been interpreted to be about Thunders' heroin addiction, and about his romance with Sable Starr. However, according to Nina Antonia's biography, Johnny Thunders...In Cold Blood, the song was written before he was even a member of the New York Dolls, and years before he ever tried heroin.[1]

Peter Perrett, from the English new wave band The Only Ones, supplied guitar and backing vocals.

Covers

• Guns N' Roses covered the song on their album, "The Spaghetti Incident?". All the instruments on this version were performed by Duff McKagan.[2]
• Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day covered the song on the album No Fun Mondays.[3]
• Ronnie Spector (featuring Joey Ramone) covered the song on her album The Last of the Rock Stars.[4][5]
• The song appears in the documentary about Thunders's New York Dolls bandmate Arthur Kane, New York Doll.[6][7]

References

На других языках

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- [en] You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory

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[ru] You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

«You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory» (с англ. — «Ты не можешь объять руками воспоминания») — песня американского музыканта Джонни Сандерса, с альбома So Alone, выпущенная синглом в сентябре 1978 году.

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