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The Bill of Rights[nb 1]
Parliament of England
Long title
An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.
Citation
1 William & Mary Sess 2 c 2
Dates
Commencement
1689
Status: Amended
Revised text of statute as amended
The Bill of Rights
Created
1689
Ratified
December 16, 1689
Location
Parliamentary Archives
Author(s)
Parliament of England
Purpose
Assert the rights of Parliament and the individual, and ensure a Protestant political supremacy
The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. Passed on 16 December 1689, it is a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right, 1689 presented by the Convention Parliament to William III and Mary II in February 1689, inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. The Bill of Rights lays down limits on the powers of the monarch and sets out the rights of Parliament, including the requirement for regular parliaments, free elections, and freedom of speech in Parliament. It sets out certain rights of individuals including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defence within the rule of law. Furthermore, the Bill of Rights described and condemned several misdeeds of James II of England.[1]
These ideas reflected those of the political thinker John Locke and they quickly became popular in England.[2] It also sets out—or, in the view of its drafters, restates—certain constitutional requirements of the Crown to seek the consent of the people, as represented in Parliament.
In the United Kingdom, the Bill of Rights is further accompanied by Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act 1679 and the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 as some of the basic documents of the uncodified British constitution. A separate but similar document, the Claim of Right Act 1689, applies in Scotland. The Bill of Rights 1689 was one of the inspirations for the United States Bill of Rights.
Along with the Act of Settlement 1701, the Bill of Rights is still in effect in all Commonwealth realms. Following the Perth Agreement in 2011, legislation amending both of them came into effect across the Commonwealth realms on 26 March 2015.
Contents
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1 Background
1.1 Glorious Revolution
1.2 Declaration of Right
2 Provisions of the Act
3 Date and title
4 Augmentation and effect
5 Legal status
5.1 United Kingdom
5.2 Australia
5.3 Canada
5.4 New Zealand
5.5 Republic of Ireland
6 Modern recognition
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 Bibliography
11 External links
Background[edit]
During the early modern period, the power of the Parliament of England continually increased. Passage of the Petition of Right in 1628 and Habeas Corpus Act in 1679 established certain liberties for subjects. The idea of a political party took form with groups debating rights to political representation during the Putney Debates of 1647. The English Civil War (1642–1651) was fought between the King and an oligarchic but elected Parliament.[3][4][5]
Glorious Revolution[edit]
Main article: Glorious Revolution
In the Glorious Revolution of 1688, a group of English Parliamentarians invited the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange) to overthrow King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland). William's successful invasion with a Dutch fleet and army led to James fleeing to France. In December 1688, William took over the provisional government by appointment of the peers of the realm, as was the legal right of the latter in circumstances when the King was incapacitated, and summoned an assembly of certain members of parliament. This assembly called for an English Convention Parliament to be elected, which convened on 22 January 1689.[6][7]
Declaration of Right[edit]
Main article: Declaration of Right, 1689
An 18th-century engraving, based on a drawing by Samuel Wale, of the Bill of Rights being presented to William III and Mary II
The proposal to draw up a statement of rights and liberties and James's violation of them was first made on 29 January 1689 in the House of Commons, with members arguing that the House "cannot answer it to the nation or Prince of Orange till we declare what are the rights invaded" and that William "cannot take it ill if we make conditions to secure ourselves for the future" in order to "do justice to those who sent us hither". On 2 February a committee specially convened reported to the Commons 23 Heads of Grievances, which the Commons approved and added some of their own. However, on 4 February the Commons decided to instruct the committee to differentiate between "such of the general heads, as are introductory of new laws, from those that are declaratory of ancient rights". On 7 February the Commons approved this revised Declaration of Right, and on 8 February instructed the committee to put into a single text the Declaration (with the heads which were "introductory of new laws" removed), the resolution of 28 January and the Lords' proposal for a revised oath of allegiance. It passed the Commons without division.[8]
On 13 February the clerk of the House of Lords read the Declaration of Right, and the Marquess of Halifax, in the name of all the estates of the realm, asked William and Mary to accept the throne. William replied for his wife and himself: "We thankfully accept what you have offered us". They then went in procession to the great gate at Whitehall. The Garter King at Arms proclaimed them King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, whereupon they adjourned to the Chapel Royal, with the Bishop of London preaching the sermon.[9] They were crowned on 11 April, swearing an oath to uphold the laws made by Parliament. The Coronation Oath Act 1688 had provided a new coronation oath, whereby the monarchs were to "solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same". They were also to maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed faith established by law.[10] This replaced an oath which had deferred more to the monarch. The previous oath required the monarch to rule based on "the laws and customs... granted by the Kings of England".[11]
Provisions of the Act[edit]
The Declaration of Right was enacted in an Act of Parliament, the Bill of Rights 1689, in December 1689.[12] The Act asserted "certain ancient rights and liberties" by declaring that:[13]
the pretended power of suspending the laws and dispensing with laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal;
the commission for ecclesiastical causes is illegal;
levying taxes without grant of Parliament is illegal;
it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;
keeping a standing army in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law;[nb 2]
Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law;
election of members of Parliament ought to be free;
the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;
excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted;
jurors in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders;
promises of fines and forfeitures before conviction are illegal and void;
for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently.
The Act declared James' flight from England following the Glorious Revolution to be an abdication of the throne. It listed twelve of James's policies by which James designed to "endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom".[14] These were:[15]
by assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament;
by prosecuting the Seven Bishops; by establishing of the court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes;
by levying taxes for the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative as if the same was granted by Parliament;
by raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of Parliament;
by causing Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law;
by violating the freedom of election of members to serve in Parliament;
by prosecutions in the Court of King's Bench for matters and causes cognizable only in Parliament, and by divers other arbitrary and illegal courses;
by employing unqualified persons on juries in trials, and jurors in trials for high treason which were not freeholders;
by imposing excessive bail on persons committed in criminal cases against the laws made for the liberty of the subjects;
by imposing excessive fines and illegal and cruel punishments;
by making several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied;
all which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm.
In a prelude to the Act of Settlement to come twelve years later, the Bill of Rights barred Roman Catholics from the throne of England as "it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince"; thus William III and Mary II were named as the successors of James II and that the throne would pass from them first to Mary's heirs, then to her sister, Princess Anne of Denmark and her heirs (and, thereafter, to any heirs of William by a later marriage).
Date and title[edit]
The Bill of Rights is commonly dated in legal contexts to 1688. This convention arises from the legal fiction (prior to the passage of the Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793) that an Act of Parliament came into force on the first day of the session in which it was passed. The Bill was therefore deemed to be effective from 13 February 1689 (New Style), or, under the Old Style calendar in use at the time, 13 February 1688. Under the Short Titles Act 1896, the Bill was given the official short title of "The Bill of Rights", without a calendar year suffix.[16]
Augmentation and effect[edit]
See also: Glorious Revolution § Legacy
The Bill of Rights was later supplemented by the Act of Settlement 1701 (which was agreed to by the Parliament of Scotland as part of the Treaty of Union). The Act of Settlement altered the line of succession to the throne laid out in the Bill of Rights.[17] However, both the Bill of Rights and the Claim of Right contributed a great deal to the establishment of the concept of parliamentary sovereignty and the curtailment of the powers of the monarch.[18][19][20] Leading, ultimately, to the establishment of constitutional monarchy,[21] while also (along with the penal laws) settling the political and religious turmoil that had convulsed Scotland, England and Ireland in the 17th century.
The Bill of Rights (1689) reinforced the Petition of Right (1628) and the Habaes Corpus Act (1679) by codifying certain rights and liberties. The rights expressed in these Acts became associated with the idea of the rights of Englishmen,[22] and described as Fundamental Laws of England. The Bill of Rights directly influenced the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights,[nb 3] which in turn influenced the Declaration of Independence.[23]
Although not a comprehensive statement of civil and political liberties, the Bill of Rights stands as one of the landmark documents in the development of civil liberties in the United Kingdom and a model for later, more general, statements of rights;[11] these include the United States Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.[24][25] For example, as with the Bill of Rights 1689, the US Constitution prohibits excessive bail and "cruel and unusual punishment". Similarly, "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" is banned under Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Legal status[edit]
The Bill of Rights remains in statute and continues to be cited in legal proceedings in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms, particularly Article 9 on parliamentary freedom of speech.[26][27] Following the Perth Agreement in 2011, legislation amending the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement 1701 came into effect across the Commonwealth realms on 26 March 2015 which changed the laws of succession to the British throne.[nb 4]
Part of the Bill of Rights remains in statute in the Republic of Ireland.
United Kingdom[edit]
The Bill of Rights applies in England and Wales; it was enacted in the Kingdom of England which at the time included Wales. Scotland has its own legislation, the Claim of Right Act 1689, passed before the Act of Union between England and Scotland. There are doubts as to whether, or to what extent, the Bill of Rights applies in Northern Ireland.[26][nb 5]
On 21 July 1995 a libel case brought by Neil Hamilton (then a member of parliament) against The Guardian was stopped after Justice May ruled that the Bill of Rights' prohibition on the courts' ability to question parliamentary proceedings would prevent The Guardian from obtaining a fair hearing. Section 13 of the Defamation Act 1996, was subsequently enacted to permit MPs to waive their parliamentary privilege and thus cite their own speeches if relevant to litigation.[30]
Following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum in 2016, the Bill of Rights was quoted in a court ruling on a legal challenge seeking a judicial declaration that triggering EU exit must first be authorised by an act of Parliament.[31][32]
Australia[edit]
The ninth article, regarding parliamentary freedom of speech, is actively used in Australia.[26]
Canada[edit]
The article on parliamentary freedom of speech is in active use in Canada.[26]
New Zealand[edit]
The Bill of Rights was invoked in New Zealand in the 1976 case of Fitzgerald v Muldoon and Others,[33] which centred on the purporting of newly appointed Prime Minister Robert Muldoon that he would advise the Governor-General to abolish a superannuation scheme established by the New Zealand Superannuation Act, 1974, without new legislation. Muldoon felt that the dissolution would be immediate and he would later introduce a bill in parliament to retroactively make the abolition legal. This claim was challenged in court and the Chief Justice declared that Muldoon's actions were illegal as they had violated Article 1 of the Bill of Rights, which provides "that the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority...is illegal."[34]
Republic of Ireland[edit]
The Act was retained in the Republic of Ireland although sections were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2007 section 2(2)(a),[35] and Part 2 of Schedule 1.[36] Section 2(3) of that Act repealed:
all of the Preamble down to "Upon which Letters Elections having been accordingly made"
the seventh paragraph "Subjects’ Arms. That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law."
all words from "And they doe Claime Demand and Insist" down to, but not including, section 2, bars Roman Catholics from Crown or Government, succession et cetera.
Modern recognition[edit]
Two special designs of commemorative two pound coins were issued in the United Kingdom in 1989 to celebrate the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. One referred to the Bill of Rights and the other to the Claim of Right. Both depict the Royal Cypher of William and Mary and the mace of the House of Commons, one also shows a representation of the St Edward's Crown and the other the Crown of Scotland.[37]
In May 2011, the Bill of Rights was inscribed in UNESCO's UK Memory of the World Register.[24][38]
As part of the Parliament in the Making programme, the Bill of Rights was on display at the Houses of Parliament in February 2015.[39]
See also[edit]
Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689
English Civil War
Financial Revolution
Toleration Act 1689
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ The Act is cited as "The Bill of Rights" in the United Kingdom, as authorised by section 1 of, and the First Schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Owing to the repeal of those provisions, it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978. In the Republic of Ireland, it is cited as "The Bill of Rights 1688", as authorised by section 1 of, and the First Schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896 (as amended by section 5(a) of the Statute Law Revision Act 2007). The short title of this Act was previously "The Bill of Rights".
Jump up ^ Arguably, this right is subject to continuing derogation in modern times; see, for example, Armed Forces Act and discussion of the same in Military Covenant.
Jump up ^ Section Seven of the Virginia Declaration of Rights reads,
That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights and ought not to be exercised.
which strongly echoes the first two "ancient rights and liberties" asserted in the Bill of Rights 1689:
That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal;
That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal;
And the Virginia Declaration's Section Nine,
That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
is borrowed word for word from the Bill of Rights 1689.
Jump up ^ In Quebec the validity of the Canadian parliament's legislation is under judicial review. Blanchfield, Mike (22 July 2013). "Quebec government to mount legal challenge to new royal succession law". National Post [1]
Jump up ^ The United Kingdom consists of four countries and three distinct legal systems: England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.[28][29] These jurisdictions have particular legal considerations of their own, arising from differences in English law, Scots law and Northern Ireland law.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Britain's unwritten constitution". British Library. Retrieved 27 November 2015. The key landmark is the Bill of Rights (1689), which established the supremacy of Parliament over the Crown.... The Bill of Rights (1689) then settled the primacy of Parliament over the monarch’s prerogatives, providing for the regular meeting of Parliament, free elections to the Commons, free speech in parliamentary debates, and some basic human rights, most famously freedom from ‘cruel or unusual punishment’.
Jump up ^ Schwoerer 1990, pp. 531–548.
Jump up ^ "Origins and growth of Parliament". The National Archives. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
Jump up ^ "Rise of Parliament". The National Archives. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
Jump up ^ "Putney debates". The British Library. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
Jump up ^ Anon. 2010, pp. 2–4.
Jump up ^ "Bill of Rights". British Library. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
Jump up ^ Horwitz 1977, p. 12.
Jump up ^ Carpenter 1956, pp. 145–46.
Jump up ^ Williams 1960, pp. 37–39.
^ Jump up to: a b "The Convention and Bill of Rights". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
Jump up ^ Thatcher 1907, pp. 10.
Jump up ^ Williams 1960, pp. 28–29.
Jump up ^ Williams 1960, p. 26.
Jump up ^ Williams 1960, p. 27.
Jump up ^ "Bill of Rights [1688]". legislation.gov.uk. note X1. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
Jump up ^ "The Act of Settlement". UK Parliament. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
Jump up ^ "The Bill of Rights". British Library. Retrieved 27 November 2015. This vigorous assertion of the rights of the subject meant that the Bill of Rights is often seen as parallel in importance with Magna Carta itself.
Jump up ^ "Rise of Parliament". The National Archives. Retrieved 22 August 2010. Although the Bill of Rights attacked the abuse of prerogative power rather than prerogative power itself, it had the virtue of enshrining in statute what many regarded as ancient rights and liberties. However, some historians maintain that a more profound change in the relationship between sovereign and Parliament emerged as a result of the financial settlement that Parliament negotiated with William and Mary.
Jump up ^ "Constitutionalism: America & Beyond". Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP), U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 30 October 2014. The earliest, and perhaps greatest, victory for liberalism was achieved in England. The rising commercial class that had supported the Tudor monarchy in the 16th century led the revolutionary battle in the 17th, and succeeded in establishing the supremacy of Parliament and, eventually, of the House of Commons. What emerged as the distinctive feature of modern constitutionalism was not the insistence on the idea that the king is subject to law (although this concept is an essential attribute of all constitutionalism). This notion was already well established in the Middle Ages. What was distinctive was the establishment of effective means of political control whereby the rule of law might be enforced. Modern constitutionalism was born with the political requirement that representative government depended upon the consent of citizen subjects.... However, as can be seen through provisions in the 1689 Bill of Rights, the English Revolution was fought not just to protect the rights of property (in the narrow sense) but to establish those liberties which liberals believed essential to human dignity and moral worth. The "rights of man" enumerated in the English Bill of Rights gradually were proclaimed beyond the boundaries of England, notably in the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 and in the French Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789.
Jump up ^ Walker 2009, p. 2: "thereby establishing a constitutional monarchy".
Jump up ^ Billias 2011, p. 54.
Jump up ^ Maier 1997, pp. 126–28.
^ Jump up to: a b "2011 UK Memory of the World Register". United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011. All the main principles of the Bill of Rights are still in force today, and the Bill of Rights continues to be cited in legal cases in the UK and in Commonwealth countries. It has a primary place in a wider national historical narrative of documents which established the rights of Parliament and set out universal civil liberties, starting with Magna Carta in 1215. It also has international significance, as it was a model for the US Bill of Rights 1789, and its influence can be seen in other documents which establish rights of human beings, such as the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.
Jump up ^ "Facts About the Bill of Rights on Its 220th Anniversary". History.com. 15 December 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Lock 1989, pp. 540–561.
Jump up ^ Toporoski, Richard (Summer 1996). "Monarchy Canada: The Invisible Crown". Archived from the original on 17 June 1997.
Jump up ^ "A Guide to the UK Legal System". Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University School of Law. November 2005. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Legal System of the United Kingdom". The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
Jump up ^ Alexander Horne; Oonagh Gay (21 May 2014). "Ending the Hamilton Affair?". UK Constitutional Law Association Blog. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
Jump up ^ "Miller & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2016] EWHC 2768 (Admin) (03 November 2016)". England and Wales High Court (Administrative Court) Decisions. 3 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016. This subordination of the Crown (i.e. the executive government) to law is the foundation of the rule of law in the United Kingdom. It has its roots well before the war between the Crown and Parliament in the seventeenth century but was decisively confirmed in the settlement arrived at with the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and has been recognised ever since,
Sir Edward Coke reports the considered view of himself and the senior judges of the time in The Case of Proclamations (1610) 12 Co. Rep. 74, that:
"the King by his proclamation or other ways cannot change any part of the common law, or statute law, or the customs of the realm"
and that:
"the King hath no prerogative, but that which the law of the land allows him."
The position was confirmed in the first two parts of section 1 of the Bill of Rights 1688:
"Suspending power - That the pretended power of suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regall authority without consent of Parlyament is illegall.
Late dispensing power - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regall authoritie as it hath beene assumed and exercised of late is illegall."
Jump up ^ "Brexit court ruling: Your questions answered". BBC. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Constitutional Setting". States Services Commission, New Zealand. Archived from the original on 16 October 2008.
Jump up ^ "The legitimacy of judicial review of executive decision-making". New Zealand Law Society. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010.
Jump up ^ "Statute Law Revision Act 2007 Section 2". Irish Statute Book.
Jump up ^ "Statute Law Revision Act 2007 Schedule 1". Irish Statute Book.
Jump up ^ "Two Pound Coin". The Royal Mint. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
Jump up ^ "Life, death and everything in between". UK Parliament. 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
Jump up ^ "Magna Carta & Parliament Exhibition". UK Parliament. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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Anon. (2010). "The Glorious Revolution". Factsheet General Series. G4. House of Commons Information Office.
Billias, George Athan (2011). American constitutionalism heard round the world, 1776-1989 : a global perspective. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814725177.
Blick, Andrew (2015). "Magna Carta and contemporary constitutional change". History and Policy.
Carpenter, Edward (1956). The Protestant Bishop. Being the Life of Henry Compton, 1632–1713. Bishop of London. London: Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 1919768.
Horwitz, Henry (1977). Parliament, Policy and Politics in the Reign of William III. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-0661-6.
Lock, Geoffrey (1989). "The 1689 Bill of Rights". Political Studies. 37 (4): 540–561. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1989.tb00288.x.
Maier, Pauline (1997). American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45492-6.
Schwoerer, Lois G. (1990). "Locke, Lockean Ideas, and the Glorious Revolution". Journal of the History of Ideas. University of Pennsylvania Press. 51 (4). JSTOR 2709645.
Thatcher, Oliver Joseph (ed.) (1907). The library of original sources. University Research Extension. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
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Text of the Bill of Rights 1689 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk
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Killing Me Softly with His Song
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"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel.
The song was written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman, who recorded the song in late 1971. In 1973 it became a number-one hit in the US and Canada for Roberta Flack, also reaching number six in the UK Singles Chart. The song has since been covered by numerous artists, including the version by the Fugees, which won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
Contents
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1 Lori Lieberman version and disputed origins
2 Roberta Flack version
2.1 Chart performance
2.2 Weekly
2.3 All-time
3 Fugees version
3.1 Background
3.2 Composition
3.3 Critical reception
3.4 Music video
3.5 Bounty Killer remix
3.6 Track listing
3.6.1 UK CD1
3.6.2 UK CD2
3.7 Chart performance
4 Charts on which "Killing Me Softly" reached number one
5 References
6 External links
Lori Lieberman version and disputed origins[edit]
According to Lori Lieberman, who performed the original recording in 1971, the song was born of a poem she wrote after experiencing a strong reaction to the Don McLean song 'Empty Chairs.'[1][2][3] She then related this information to Gimbel, who took her feelings and put them into words. Then Gimbel passed the words to Fox, who set them to music.[4]
According to Norman Gimbel, Gimbel was introduced to the Argentinean-born composer Lalo Schifrin (then of Mission: Impossible fame) and began writing songs to a number of Schifrin's films.[5] Both Gimbel and Schifrin made a suggestion to write a Broadway musical together, and Schifrin gave Gimbel an Argentinean novel—Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar—to read as a possible idea. The book was never made into a musical, but in chapter two, the narrator describes himself as sitting in a bar listening to an American pianist friend "kill us softly with some blues".[5][6] Gimbel put the phrase in his "idea book" for use at a future time with a parenthesis around the word "blues" and substituted the word "song" instead.[7]
Don McLean said he didn't know the song described him and, when asked about it, said "I'm absolutely amazed. I've heard both Lori's and Roberta's version and I must say I'm very humbled about the whole thing. You can't help but feel that way about a song written and performed as well as this one is."
Nevertheless, Fox has repudiated Lieberman's having input into the song's creation, saying: "We [Gimbel and Fox] wrote the song and [Lieberman] heard it and said it reminded her of how she felt at [a Don McLean] concert. Don McLean didn't inspire Norman or me to write the song but even Don McLean thinks he's the inspiration for the song."[8]
Don McLean supported Lieberman both on his website and from the stage of a concert which he invited her to attend in 2010. However, the matter only reached an unequivocal conclusion when contemporaneous articles from the early 1970s were exhumed, all of them vindicating Lieberman. In an April 5, 1973 article in the Daily News, Norman Gimbel was quoted as follows: "She [Lori Lieberman] told us about this strong experience she had listening to McLean ('I felt all flushed with fever / Embarrassed by the crowd / I felt he had found my letters / And read each one out loud / I prayed that he would finish / But he just kept right on'). I had a notion this might make a good song so the three of us discussed it. We talked it over several times, just as we did for the rest of the numbers we wrote for this album and we all felt it had possibilities."[9]
Roberta Flack version[edit]
"Killing Me Softly with His Song"
One of A-side labels of U.S. vinyl single
Single by Roberta Flack
from the album Killing Me Softly
B-side
"Just Like a Woman"
Released
January 21, 1973
Format
7" single
Recorded
November 17, 1972
Genre
Soul
Length
4:46
Label
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Charles Fox
Norman Gimbel
Producer(s)
Joel Dorn
Roberta Flack singles chronology
"Where Is the Love"
(1972) "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
(1973) "Jesse"
(1973)
"Where Is the Love"
(1972) "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
(1973) "Jesse"
(1973)
Alternative release
German vinyl single
"Killing Me Softly With His Song"
Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song" from Killing Me Softly
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Lieberman was the first to record the song in late 1971, releasing it in early 1972.[10] Helen Reddy has said she was sent the song, but "the demo... sat on my turntable for months without being played because I didn't like the title".[11]
Roberta Flack first heard the song on an airline, when the Lieberman original was featured on the in-flight audio program. After scanning the listing of available audio selections, Flack would recall: "The title, of course, smacked me in the face. I immediately pulled out some scratch paper, made musical staves [then] play[ed] the song at least eight to ten times jotting down the melody that I heard. When I landed, I immediately called Quincy [Jones] at his house and asked him how to meet Charles Fox. Two days later I had the music." Shortly afterwards Flack rehearsed the song with her band in the Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, but did not then record it.[12]
In September 1972, Flack was opening for Marvin Gaye at the Greek Theater; after performing her prepared encore song, Flack was advised by Gaye to sing an additional song. Flack later said, "I said well, I got this song I've been working on called 'Killing Me Softly...' and he said 'Do it, baby.' And I did it and the audience went crazy, and he walked over to me and put his arm around me and said, 'Baby, don't ever do that song again live until you record it.'"[13]
Released in January 1973, Flack's version spent a total of five non-consecutive weeks at #1 in February and March, more weeks than any other record in 1973, being bumped to number 2 by the O'Jays' "Love Train" after four straight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1973.[14]
Charles Fox suggested that Flack's version was more successful than Lieberman's because Flack's "version was faster and she gave it a strong backbeat that wasn't in the original".[8] According to Flack: "My classical background made it possible for me to try a number of things with [the song's arrangement]. I changed parts of the chord structure and chose to end on a major chord. [The song] wasn't written that way."[15] Flack plays electric piano on the track. The bass is played by Ron Carter, the guitar by Hugh McCracken and the drums by Ray Lucas.[citation needed] The single appeared as the opening track of the album of the same name, issued in August 1973.
Flack won the 1973 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, for the single, with Gimbel and Fox earning the Song of the Year Grammy.
In 1996 a house remix of Flack's version went to number one on the US dance chart.[16]
In 1999 Flack's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[17] It ranked number 360 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and number 82 on Billboard's greatest songs of all time.[18]
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly[edit]
Chart (1973)
Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[19] 19
Canada (RPM)[20] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[21] 30
Ireland (IRMA) 10
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[22] 3
Norway (VG-lista)[23] 4
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[24] 32
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[25] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[26] 1
US Hot R&B Singles[26] 2
US Hot Adult Contemporary Singles[26] 2
All-time[edit]
Chart
Position
US Billboard Hot 100[27] 92
Preceded by
"Crocodile Rock" by Elton John Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
February 24, 1973 (four weeks) Succeeded by
"Love Train" by The O'Jays
Preceded by
"Love Train" by The O'Jays Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
March 31, 1973 (one week) Succeeded by
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence
Fugees version[edit]
"Killing Me Softly"
Single by Fugees
from the album The Score
Released
May 31, 1996
Format
CD single
Recorded
1995
Genre
R&B, hip hop soul
Length
4:58 (album version)
4:16 (radio edit)
4:00 (radio edit: without intro)
Label
Ruffhouse
Songwriter(s)
Charles Fox
Norman Gimbel
Producer(s)
The Fugees
Fugees singles chronology
"Fu-Gee-La"
(1996) "Killing Me Softly"
(1996) "Ready or Not"
(1996)
"Fu-Gee-La"
(1996) "Killing Me Softly"
(1996) "Ready or Not"
(1996)
"Killing Me Softly"
The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" from The Score
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Hip hop group Fugees covered the song (as simply "Killing Me Softly") on their 1996 album The Score, with Lauryn Hill singing the lead vocals. Their version became a hit, reaching number two on the U.S. airplay chart. The song topped the charts in the United Kingdom, where it became the country's biggest-selling single of 1996. It has since sold 1.36 million copies in Britain.[28] The Fugees recording won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and their video earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video.[29]
This version sampled the 1990 song "Bonita Applebum" by A Tribe Called Quest (ATCQ) from their debut album People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. ATCQ themselves had sampled the riff from the song "Memory Band" from psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection's 1967 eponymous debut album. The Fugees single was so successful that the track was "deleted" and thus no longer supplied to retailers whilst the track was still in the top 20 so that attention could be drawn to the next single, "Ready or Not". Propelled by the success of the Fugees track, the 1972 recording by Roberta Flack was remixed in 1996 with the vocalist adding some new vocal flourishes: this version topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Flack and the Fugees have performed the song together since then.[30] In 2008, "Killing Me Softly" was ranked number 25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop and #44 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s".
Background[edit]
"Killing Me Softly" was the last song the Fugees recorded for The Score, after member Pras Michael made the suggestion to cover it. They wanted to "see how we can create break beats. And of course, we all love A Tribe Called Quest and we went in like 'Okay, let’s cut that sample'." They then added a bass reggae drop.[31] Initially, the Fugees wanted to change the lyrics of the song to make it anti-drugs and anti-poverty but the songwriters, Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, refused.[32]
Composition[edit]
The Fugees' version features "percussive rhythms" with "a synth sitar sound, Wyclef's blurted chants, Hill's vocal melisma on the scatted bridage, and a bombastic drum-loop track".[33]
Critical reception[edit]
In January 1997, Spin called the song "an instant classic, pumped out of every passing car from coast to coast, with Lauryn Hill's timeless voice never losing its poignant kick".[34] Celebrating the album's 20th anniversary in February 2016, Billboard reviewed the song, saying: "It's a lovely cover that maintains the spirit of the original while taking the material in new directions."[35]
Music video[edit]
The video, directed by Aswad Ayinde[36] and based on Lauryn Hill's ideas, never came out commercially in America.[37] It features Roberta Flack.[33][38]
Bounty Killer remix[edit]
The Fugees recorded a dancehall version with Bounty Killer rapping and Hill singing a rewritten chorus. However, they did not receive permission to release it on The Score.[30]
Track listing[edit]
UK CD1[edit]
"Killing Me Softly" (Album Version W/Out Intro) – 4:03
"Killing Me Softly" (Album Instrumental) – 4:03
"Cowboys" (Album Version) – 3:35
"Nappy Heads" (Remix) – 3:49
UK CD2[edit]
"Killing Me Softly" (Album Version With Intro) – 4:16
"Fu-Gee-La" (Refugee Camp Global Mix) – 4:15
"Vocab" (Refugees Hip Hop Mix) – 4:07
"Vocab" (Salaam's Acoustic Remix) – 5:54
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1996–97)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[39] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[40] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[41] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[42] 1
Canada (RPM)[43] 6
Denmark (IFPI) 1
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) 1
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[44] 1
France (SNEP)[45] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[46] 1
Ireland (IRMA) 1
Italy (FIMI) 1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[47] 1
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[48] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[49] 1
Spain (AFYVE)[50] 8
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[51] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[52] 1
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[53] 1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[54] 30
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[55] 20
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[56] 48
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[57] 1
US Radio Songs (Billboard)[58] 2
Preceded by
"Three Lions" by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds UK Singles Chart Number 1 single
June 2, 1996 – June 30, 1996
(four weeks) Succeeded by
"Three Lions" by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds
Preceded by
"Three Lions" by Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds UK Singles Chart Number 1 single
July 7, 1996 – July 13, 1996
(one week) Succeeded by
"Forever Love" by Gary Barlow
Charts on which "Killing Me Softly" reached number one[edit]
List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
List of RPM number-one singles of 1973
List of number-one singles in 1973 (New Zealand)
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1973 (U.S.)
List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1990s
List of number-one hits of 1996 (Austria)
List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1996
List of European number-one hits of 1996
List of number-one hits of 1996 (France)
List of number-one singles of 1996 (Ireland)
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External links[edit]
Music video at MTV.com
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Roberta Flack
Studio albums
First Take (1969)
Chapter Two (1970)
Quiet Fire (1971)
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1972)
Killing Me Softly (1973)
Feel Like Makin' Love (1975)
Blue Lights in the Basement (1977)
Roberta Flack (1978)
Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway (1980)
I'm the One (1982)
Born to Love (1983)
Oasis (1988)
Set the Night to Music (1991)
Roberta (1994)
The Christmas Album (1997)
Holiday (2003)
Live albums
Live & More (1980)
At Her Best – Live (2008)
Soundtrack albums
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Compilation albums
The Best of Roberta Flack (1981)
Greatest Hits (1984)
Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack (1993)
The Very Best of Roberta Flack (2006)
Singles
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
"Where Is the Love"
"Killing Me Softly with His Song"
"Feel Like Makin' Love (Roberta Flack song)"
"The Closer I Get to You"
"If Ever I See You Again"
"Making Love"
"Tonight, I Celebrate My Love"
"Oasis"
"Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)"
Related articles
Discography
Donny Hathaway
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Best-selling singles by year in the United Kingdom
1952–1969
1952: "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" – Vera Lynn (UK)
1953: "I Believe" – Frankie Laine
1954: "Secret Love" – Doris Day
1955: "Rose Marie" – Slim Whitman
1956: "I'll Be Home" – Pat Boone
1957: "Diana" – Paul Anka
1958: "Jailhouse Rock" – Elvis Presley
1959: "Living Doll" – Cliff Richard (UK)
1960: "It's Now or Never" – Elvis Presley
1961: "Wooden Heart" – Elvis Presley
1962: "I Remember You" – Frank Ifield (UK)
1963: "She Loves You" – The Beatles (UK)
1964: "Can't Buy Me Love" – The Beatles (UK)
1965: "Tears" – Ken Dodd (UK)
1966: "Green, Green Grass of Home" – Tom Jones (UK)
1967: "Release Me" – Engelbert Humperdinck (UK)
1968: "Hey Jude" – The Beatles (UK)
1969: "Sugar, Sugar" – The Archies
1970–1989
1970: "The Wonder of You" – Elvis Presley
1971: "My Sweet Lord" – George Harrison (UK)
1972: "Amazing Grace" – The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band (UK)
1973: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" – Tony Orlando and Dawn
1974: "Tiger Feet" – Mud (UK)
1975: "Bye Bye Baby" – Bay City Rollers (UK)
1976: "Save Your Kisses for Me" – Brotherhood of Man (UK)
1977: "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School" – Wings (UK)
1978: "Rivers of Babylon" / "Brown Girl in the Ring" – Boney M.
1979: "Bright Eyes" – Art Garfunkel
1980: "Don't Stand So Close to Me" – The Police (UK)
1981: "Don't You Want Me" – The Human League (UK)
1982: "Come On Eileen" – Dexys Midnight Runners (UK)
1983: "Karma Chameleon" – Culture Club (UK)
1984: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" – Band Aid (UK)
1985: "The Power of Love" – Jennifer Rush
1986: "Don't Leave Me This Way" – The Communards (UK)
1987: "Never Gonna Give You Up" – Rick Astley (UK)
1988: "Mistletoe and Wine" – Cliff Richard (UK)
1989: "Ride on Time" – Black Box
1990–2009
1990: "Unchained Melody" – The Righteous Brothers
1991: "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – Bryan Adams
1992: "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
1993: "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" – Meat Loaf
1994: "Love Is All Around" – Wet Wet Wet (UK)
1995: "Unchained Melody" – Robson & Jerome (UK)
1996: "Killing Me Softly" – Fugees
1997: "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997" – Elton John (UK)
1998: "Believe" – Cher
1999: "...Baby One More Time" – Britney Spears
2000: "Can We Fix It?" – Bob the Builder (UK)
2001: "It Wasn't Me" – Shaggy featuring Rikrok (UK)
2002: "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" – Will Young (UK)
2003: "Where Is the Love?" – The Black Eyed Peas
2004: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" – Band Aid 20 (UK)
2005: "Is This the Way to Amarillo" – Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay (UK)
2006: "Crazy" – Gnarls Barkley
2007: "Bleeding Love" – Leona Lewis (UK)
2008: "Hallelujah" – Alexandra Burke (UK)
2009: "Poker Face" – Lady Gaga
2010–present
2010: "Love the Way You Lie" – Eminem featuring Rihanna
2011: "Someone Like You" – Adele (UK)
2012: "Somebody That I Used to Know" – Gotye featuring Kimbra
2013: "Blurred Lines" – Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams
2014: "Happy" – Pharrell Williams
2015: "Uptown Funk" – Mark Ronson (UK) featuring Bruno Mars
2016: "One Dance" – Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla (UK)
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"Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension (Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamont McLemore, Ron Townson)
produced by Bones Howe (1970) "Bridge over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel (Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon)
produced by Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon & Roy Halee (1971)
"It's Too Late" by Carole King
produced by Lou Adler (1972) "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack
produced by Joel Dorn (1973)
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack
produced by Joel Dorn (1974) "I Honestly Love You" by Olivia Newton-John
produced by John Farrar (1975)
"Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille (Daryl Dragon, Toni Tennille)
produced by Daryl Dragon (1976) "This Masquerade" by George Benson
produced by Tommy LiPuma (1977)
"Hotel California" by Eagles (Don Felder, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner, Joe Walsh)
produced by Bill Szymczyk (1978) "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel
produced by Phil Ramone (1979)
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(1970s)
(1980s)
(1990s)
(2000s)
(2010s)
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1970
Joe South - "Games People Play"
1971
Paul Simon - "Bridge over Troubled Water"
1972
Carole King - "You've Got a Friend"
1973
Ewan MacColl - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
1974
Norman Gimbel & Charles Fox - "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
1975
Alan and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch - "The Way We Were"
1976
Stephen Sondheim - "Send in the Clowns"
1977
Bruce Johnston - "I Write the Songs"
1978
Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams - "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" and Joe Brooks - "You Light Up My Life"
1979
Billy Joel - "Just the Way You Are"
Complete list
(1960s)
(1970s)
(1980s)
(1990s)
(2000s)
(2010s)
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