Steel and Glass
| "Steel and Glass" | |
|---|---|
| Song by John Lennon | |
| from the album Walls and Bridges | |
| Published | Lennon Music/ATV Music | 
| Released | 26 September 1974 | 
| Recorded | July – August 1974 | 
| Genre | Rock • Folk Rock | 
| Length | 4:37 | 
| Label | Apple | 
| Songwriter(s) | John Lennon | 
| Producer(s) | John Lennon | 
| Walls and Bridges track listing | |
| 12 tracks | |
"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.