“Tired of Being Alone” was a popular soul song released by Al Green in 1971. It became the singer’s first breakthrough hit that rose all the way to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. According to Memphis Magazine, Green revealed that he wrote the song after playing a show in Dallas. When he was driving back home to Michigan with his girlfriend, he performed the song with his guitar.
“The girl said, ‘Would you please put that thing down, you’re driving me nuts,’” Green recalled. “But I was gone on that song.”
Green started his career when he was young. In Interview Magazine, he explained, “I got started when I was nineteen. But I started singing earlier. I started singing when I was a little kid. I was about nine when we had a group with my four brothers. We sang spirituals. The old regular thing. The spiritual bag. Just about like everybody else, I guess. It’s fun. A lot of religious feeling, but there’s no money. The money is funny. As they say. The group has since broken up, you know. They’re all married fellows now. Big fellows. Families. That type of thing.”
Green also spoke about the difference between performing when he was first starting out and after he grew as an artist. “Then I didn’t write,” he said. “I write all of my things now. I wasn’t into writing. I wasn’t into the concept of what I call real music, free music. Free music to me is music without boundaries. It’s music that… says you don’t have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I’m -saying. Music that can go from any range. The boundaries are from the sky to the center of the earth. Do you see what I mean?”
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Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Two of his songs have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. They are “Let’s Stay Together” and “Take Me To the River.” Some of his other popular songs include “I’m Still in Love with You” and “Love and Happiness.”
Green is currently 80 years old.
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