Backed by another album track, "Apple Scruffs", "What Is Life" was issued as a single in America on 15 February 1971 (as Apple 1828), just as the "My Sweet Lord"/"Isn't It a Pity" double A-side was finally slipping out of the top ten.
Because today is Catharsis Day at the convention, we figured we better do like Aristotle says in the Poetics and hit you with a double dose of pity and fear so you can purge both your raw, untamed emotion and your hope that life in America will ever get better for anybody.
Pity the double vision: the novelist dreaming plotlines while scouring Gosplan statistics till the eyeballs turned red.
Apple issued "My Sweet Lord" as the album's first single, as a double A-side with "Isn't It a Pity" in the majority of countries.
The full, seven-minute "Isn't It a Pity" was therefore issued as a double A-side with "My Sweet Lord" on 23 November in the United States and Canada (as Apple 2995), four days before the album's release there.
Released as a double A-side with "Isn't It a Pity", with Apple catalogue number 2995 in America, both sides of the disc featured a full Apple label.
Finally, "Sufferin'" and "I Tried" round off the album with a double-dose of self-pity: the former is a rich man's blues, Kelly lamenting how his Rolls-Royce, his gated residence and his cherrywood furniture can't compensate for his heartbreak (to which: boo-hoo), while the latter simply illustrates that shameless begging and whining sounds even less persuasive when it's autotuned.
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Everybody sits round the table in odd postures of pity and disgust, legs folded and bent in a double helix.
