"One"
Single by Metallica from the album ...And Justice for All
Released	September 6, 1988
Format	CD single
Recorded	January - May, 1988
Genre	Thrash metal
Length	7:24
Label	Elektra
Writer	James Hetfield Lars Ulrich
Producer	Metallica Flemming Rasmussen
Metallica singles chronology
"Harvester of Sorrow" (1988) "One" (1989) "Enter Sandman" (1991)
Alternate Single Cover
Music sample
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"One" is a Grammy Award winning ^[1][2] song performed by rock band Metallica. One of Metallica's most famous songs, "One" appeared as the fourth track of, and was released as the third single from, the band's 1988 album ...And Justice For All. Metallica won their first Grammy Award in 1990 for "One", winning Best Metal Performance. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... ...And Justice for All is American heavy metal band Metallicas fourth studio album released August 25, 1988, by Elektra Records. ... is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Heavy metal redirects here. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, and today operates under Atlantic Records Group. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... James Alan Hetfield (born 3 August 1963, Downey, California[1]) is the main songwriter, lead vocalist, guitarist and a founding member of the American thrash/heavy metal band Metallica. ... Lars Ulrich (born December 26, 1963) is the drummer and co-founder of Metallica. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Flemming Razz Rasmussen (born in Denmark in 1958) is a engineer, producer and owner and founder of Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Harvester of Sorrow is the sixth song from the Metallica album . ... Music sample Enter Sandman ( file info) Problems? See media help. ... Image File history File links Metallicaone. ... Image File history File links Metallica_One_sample. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... ...And Justice for All is American heavy metal band Metallicas fourth studio album released August 25, 1988, by Elektra Records. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance has been awarded since 1990. ...

Song

"One" was written in November, 1987 by Metallica's principal composers — rhythm guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. The song was released in 1989 as the second^{[citation needed]} single taken from the album (the first being "Harvester of Sorrow"). Rhythm guitar is the role of the guitar in playing accompaniment in various musical styles. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... James Alan Hetfield (born 3 August 1963, Downey, California[1]) is the main songwriter, lead vocalist, guitarist and a founding member of the American thrash/heavy metal band Metallica. ... For the comic book character, see Drummer (comics). ... Lars Ulrich (born December 26, 1963) is the drummer and co-founder of Metallica. ... Harvester of Sorrow is the sixth song from the Metallica album . ...

Before any music begins, there is a series of sound effects with a battle theme for the first 17 seconds of the track; an artillery barrage is heard and continues slightly after the music begins. The song starts off with a clean tone guitar intro by Hetfield before Kirk Hammett comes in over the top of Hetfield with a clean-toned solo. The song speeds up after Ulrich's drums come in and continues until each chorus, when the guitars become heavy and distorted before returning to clean. 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 two bass drums) before the final - often highly praised - guitar solo by Hammett, and a final dual solo by Hammett and Hetfield. Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media. ... Kirk Lee Hammett (born on November 18, 1962) is the lead guitarist in the band Metallica. ... In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer (solo is an Italian word literally meaning alone). ...

"One"'s opening A-G modulation was written by Hetfield based on an idea prompted by the song "Buried Alive" by the band Venom. In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key (tonic, or tonal center) to another. ... Venom is a black/thrash metal band, formed in 1979, in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Influenced by rock and heavy metal acts such as Judas Priest, The Sex Pistols, KISS and Motörhead, Venom created a sound as well as an image that would be a big influence to early... Venom are a heavy metal band, formed in late 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ...

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Live performance

"One" is a favorite of many Metallica fans, and thus is a fixture of the band's live shows. When played live, the song is usually played with guitars tuned down by one semitone (a permanent fixture of their Studio and Live work since the post-Black Album era) and is preceded by pyrotechnics and the same sounds of war such as machine guns, bombs exploding and helicopters as heard on the recorded version. The song was also featured on S&M (Symphony & Metallica) — Metallica's album of live performances in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the late Michael Kamen. In guitar playing, an altered or slack tuning is one in which the intervals between the strings are unchanged, but all the strings are lowered in pitch by a given interval. ... A semitone (also known in the USA as a half step) is a musical interval. ... Metallica (also known as The Black Album as a play on words to The White Album because of its largely black and nearly-featureless cover) is the self titled fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica. ... Pyrotechnics is a field of study often thought synonymous with the manufacture of fireworks, but more accurately it has a wider scope that includes items for military and industrial uses. ... S&M is American heavy metal band Metallicas ninth album, recorded live with the San Francisco Symphony on April 21-22 of 1999. ... The San Francisco Symphony is a major orchestra based in San Francisco, California. ... Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician. ...

Music video

"One" was the first Metallica song for which a music video was created. The music video directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon debuted on MTV on January 20, 1989. The video is almost entirely in black & white, and features the band performing the song in a warehouse. It features dialogue and several scenes from the movie Johnny Got His Gun, written and directed by Dalton Trumbo, adapted from a book of the same name and authored by the director. Timothy Bottoms can be seen starring as Joe Bonham, the main character in the novel. Bonham is confined to a hospital and is sustained via a tube after suffering catastrophic injuries from a mortar shell (although a land mine is mentioned as the cause of injury in the song lyrics) during the First World War. Although he survived, the explosion caused incredible loss of limbs, including both his arms and legs, along with most of his face including his eyes, nose and ears leaving him blind, deaf, mute and almost completely immobile. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Bill Pope(born June 19, 1952) is an award winning American cinematographer, best known for his work on the Matrix trilogy and Spider Man movies. ... This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ... is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 anti-war film written and directed by Dalton Trumbo and starred by Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland. ... Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. ... Johnny Got His Gun is a novel written in 1938 (published 1939) by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. ... Timothy Bottoms (born August 30, 1951) is an American actor. ... US soldier loading a M224 60-mm mortar. ... Shells of WWI. From left to right: 90 mm fragmentation shell - 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell 77/14 model - 75 mm high explosive shell model 16 - 75 mm fragmentation shell A shell is a payload-carrying projectile, which, as opposed to a bullet, contains an explosive or other filling... “Minefield” redirects here. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... This article is about the visual condition. ... The word deaf can have very different meanings depending on the background of the person speaking or the context in which the word is used. ... Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorders where normal speech is disrupted. ... Paralysed redirects here. ...

Metallica bought the rights to Johnny Got His Gun so they would be able to use it exclusively for the video for "One". Three versions of the "One" music video were made - the first (the longest) contained scenes of both the band and scenes from the movie. The second was simply a shortened version of the first and the third contained only the band performing the song (without any scenes from the movie).

Like many other music videos from the metal band, "One" puts great emphasis on the performances of the band members as musicians, with many shots of Hetfield, Newsted and Hammett's hands picking (plucking in the case of Newsted) and fretting. However, unlike (for example) glam metal music videos (such as Poison's "Nothing But A Good Time") the "One" video performance does not present their performance as a fantastic spectacle filled with bright colors, stage antics, and live excitement. Instead, the video features the band members in a typical early Metallica fashion - playing (as if in rehearsal) in some sort of warehouse, in tight formation around Ulrich's drum kit, and dressed in casual street clothes and with long untamed hair. Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s - early 1980s in the United States. ... Poison is an American glam metal band which originally achieved popular success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...

In the music video, it can be clearly seen that both Hetfield and Hammett are playing ESP guitars. It is also clear that Newsted is playing bass with his fingers at the start of the song, but towards the end just before the solo and during it Jason is shown to be using a pick. ESP Company, Limited ), located in North Hollywood, California, is a prominent manufacturer of electric guitars and basses, originally from Japan. ...

Two of the three versions of the "One" music video appear on 2 of One, a VHS released on July 1, 1990. 2 of One cover, by Pushead 2 of One, a home video released on June 6, 1989, features two versions of Metallicas 1989 video One from their album, ...And Justice for All. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

The music video was ranked 38 on Rock on the Net: MTV: 100 Greatest Music Videos ever made.

Lineup

• James Hetfield - rhythm guitar, lead vocals
• Kirk Hammett - lead & rhythm guitars
• Jason Newsted - bass, backing vocals
• Lars Ulrich - drums

Covers

• "One" was covered by Crematory for the Tribute To The Four Horsemen CD.
• "One" was covered by nu-metal band Korn as part of the MTV Icons Metallica tribute TV-show. This cover version is featured as a hidden track on their 2003 album Take a Look in the Mirror. However, Korn's version was shortened to a little more than 4 minutes, like most performances at "MTV Icons". Thus it lacks much of the second half of the song, including the final guitar solo. The bridge is also played often at live shows as an outro to their song Shoots and Ladders.
• Apocalyptica has covered this song. It is the last track on their album Inquisition Symphony.
• Mexican-born, Dublin-based duo Rodrigo y Gabriela covered "One" on Live in Manchester and Dublin.
• "One" was not covered by Children of Bodom, contrary to popular belief.
• "One" is covered by the grunge band Junkyard.

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Other appearances

• "One" is featured in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
• "One" will also be featured as a downloadable song in the video game Rock Band, shortly after the game has been released.

Rock Band is an upcoming music video game under development by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games, and to be distributed by Electronic Arts Partners scheduled for a North American release during the 2007 holiday season. ...

Awards

"One" was voted as the 7th of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" of all time by readers of Guitar World, [1] placed between "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses (6th) and "Hotel California" by the Eagles (8th). Two issues of Guitar World featuring Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix on the covers, and the accompanying CDs (May 2005, October 2005) Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists. ... November Rain is a song by the band Guns N Roses, written by Axl Rose. ... Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. ... This article is about the album. ... The Eagles redirects here. ...

In an interview with Tenacious D, they claimed that the inspiration for the song 'Tribute' came after Jack Black played Metallica's "One" for Kyle Gass, describing it as "the best song in the world." ^{[3] [4]} This article is about the band. ...

References

External links

• Official Metallica website
• "One" Lyrics @ Metallica.com
• Johnny Got His Gun @ imdb.com
• "One" Song Info @ encycmet.com