For a Rocker

For a Rocker

Infobox Single
Name = For a Rocker


Artist = Jackson Browne
from Album = Lawyers in Love
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:05
Label = Asylum
Released = 1983
Recorded = 1982-1983
Writer = Jackson Browne
Last single = "Tender Is the Night" (1983)
This single = "For a Rocker" (1983)
Next single = "Cut It Away" (1984)Extra tracklisting
Album = Lawyers in Love
Type = studio
prev_track = "Say It Isn't True"
prev_no = 7
this_track = "For a Rocker"
track_no = 8
next_track = end of album
next_no =

"For a Rocker" is a 1983 single by the singer Jackson Browne. It was released in his 7th album "Lawyers in Love". It charted at number eight on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was the third single released from "Lawyers in Love". The song is also the eighth and last track from the album.

The lyrics were inspired, at least in part, by the death of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, who was a friend of Browne's.

The song was something of a departure for Browne, a straight-out uptempo party number: "I got a shirt so "unbelievably" bright, I'm gonna dig it out and wear it tonight." "Rolling Stone" among others commented on its apparent attempt to emulate that aspect of Bruce Springsteen's work, [Christopher Connelly, [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/146758/review/5946983?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview "Lawyers in Love"] , September 29, 1983.] and indeed Browne used it to close out concerts in the arenas he was now playing. As the magazine and others noted, however, it did not quite have the verve or memorability of its model, and in the decades that followed it failed to gain a slot in the classic rock rotation and has been largely forgotten.

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