Leaving Las Vegas (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Leaving Las Vegas


Artist = Sheryl Crow
from Album = Tuesday Night Music Club
Released = 1994
Format = CD single
Genre = Pop rock
Writer = Sheryl Crow/David Baerwald/Bill Bottrell/Brian McLeod/David Ricketts/Kevin Gilbert
Producer = Bill Bottrell
Certification =
Chart position =

#8 (Modern Rock Tracks)

#6 (Billboard Hot 100)

#31 (Top 40 Mainstream)

Last single = N/A
This single = "Leaving Las Vegas" (1994)
Next single = " All I Wanna Do" (1994)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Background = khaki

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"Leaving Las Vegas" is a pop rock song by Sheryl Crow that appears on her debut album "Tuesday Night Music Club", and was the album's, and Crow's, first single in the U.S.

Title

"Leaving Las Vegas'" title was based on a book by the same name by the late John O'Brien, who was a good friend of the song's writer, David Baerwald. However, on a performance of Late Night with David Letterman, Sheryl Crow stated that the song was "autobiographical." This infuriated Baerwald, and the rest of the original Tuesday Night Music Club, who helped write most of the album, "Tuesday Night Music Club". Though O'Brien's suicide occurred soon after this incident, his family came forward to state there was no connection [cite web|title=The Biography of Sheryl Crow|url=http://www.poemhunter.com/lyrics/sheryl-crow/biography/] . According to Crow, the song was recorded while she and the rest of the band, were under the influence of LSD.

Video

The song was accompanied by Sheryl's first ever videoclip. It was directed by David Hogan, who also shot her video for "All I Wanna Do". The 1993 video shows Sheryl performing the song with her guitar in the dark, with only some parts of her face lit up. Other scenes include famous Vegas-images such as dancers and Elvis Presley-lookalikes walking on a highway, obviously "leaving Las Vegas". The video uses an edited version of the song.

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