Steel and Glass

"Steel and Glass"
Song by John Lennon
from the album Walls and Bridges
PublishedLennon Music/ATV Music
Released26 September 1974
RecordedJuly  August 1974
GenreRockFolk Rock
Length4:37
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)John Lennon
Producer(s)John Lennon
Walls and Bridges track listing

"Steel and Glass" is a song written and performed by John Lennon, released on his 1974 album Walls and Bridges. A dark folk song, it has been interpreted as an attack on Lennon's former business manager Allen Klein but others argue Lennon was in fact addressing the song to himself, in a similar fashion to the Beatles' track "Nowhere Man".

The song contains a lick performed by violins and horns in the chorus that is reminiscent of Lennon's song "How Do You Sleep?", an attack on his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney.