Jealous Guy is a John Lennon song from his 1971 album Imagine. It began life in 1968 as Child of Nature - inspired by a Maharishi Mahesh Yogi lecture in Rishikesh - and was later rewritten as a confession about jealousy and insecurity in love. The track was recorded in 1971 at Ascot Sound Studios with piano by Nicky Hopkins and New York string overdubs by the Flux Fiddlers; it’s a piano-driven ballad that sits in the soft rock/folk-rock realm. Lennon's version appeared on Imagine but was not released as a single during his lifetime - it finally came out as a posthumous single in 1985, with Going Down on Love on the B-side, reaching number 65 in the UK and number 80 on the US Hot 100. A 1981 cover by Roxy Music topped the UK and Australian charts and performed well across Europe, helping make Jealous Guy one of Lennon's best-loved solo songs.
