I Had Lost My Mind
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"I Had Lost My Mind" is a song by famed alternative rock
musician Daniel Johnston
. It was first released on his album Don't Be Scared
, self-recorded and released in 1982. The song subsequently became the major theme song of the 2005 documentary
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
musician Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston
Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....
. It was first released on his album Don't Be Scared
Don't Be Scared
Don't Be Scared is singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston's second self-released album, recorded and released in 1982. It was re-released on cassette in 1986 by Stress Records, a label run by Johnston's friend and manager Jeff Tartakov, on mp3 by emusic.com in 2000 and on CDR by Eternal Yip Eye Music in...
, self-recorded and released in 1982. The song subsequently became the major theme song of the 2005 documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2006 documentary film about the noted American artist Daniel Johnston. It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession. The film was...
.