2001Released
5:40

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Interesting facts and trivia about Clint Eastwood. By Songfacts®.

This song is named after the famous Western movie actor. The theme from Eastwood's movie The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly can be heard periodically throughout the song. Eastwood is most famously known for his portrayal of a western character with no name in Sergio Leone Italian westerns of the late '60s. He played Dirty Harry Callahan in the movies Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool, and was the Mayor of Carmel, California in the '80s. Eastwood is also a huge fan and supporter of jazz, and is a somewhat accomplished self-taught jazz pianist.

The reason the song is called Clint Eastwood is because of the strange harmonica-like instrument used in the background, which is called a melodica. It is a keyboard instrument that is played by blowing through a tube and pressing its keys. Damon Albarn of Gorillaz plays it throughout the track, and he thought it sounded a lot like the score to the Clint Eastwood's movie A Fistful of Dollars. Also, Clint Eastwood is the name of a Jamaican reggae artist who the band heard about when they were recording the album in Jamaica. Albarn explained during a Reddit AMA: "We were recording in Jamaica and listening to a lot of dancehall music and we imagined a cool moniker to have would be Clint Eastwood. Also I'm a great fan of the actor and of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone."

The "Laika Come Home" remix of this song is called "A Fistful of Peanuts."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Clint Eastwood.
A♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
168BPM

Album

The album Clint Eastwood is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Clint Eastwood.
Parlophone UK
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company

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