One Foot in the Grave (album) One Foot in the Grave (album) One Foot in the Grave is the fourth studio album by American musician Beck, released on June 26, 1994 by K Records. It was recorded prior to the release of "Mellow Gold", but was not released until after that album had met critical and commercial success. "One Foot in the Grave" shows strong lo-fi and folk influences, and features several songs that are interpolations or covers of songs popularized by artists such as Skip James and The Carter Family. "One Foot in the Grave" features production, songwriting, and backing vocal assistance by Calvin Johnson,
One Foot in the Grave had gone upstairs during a game of Happy Families and not returned; Ronnie then shows her feet hanging outside of the window, revealing that she has committed suicide. The Broadcasting Standards Commission received complaints about this scene. When the final episode, "Things Aren't Simple Any More" originally aired on 20 November 2000 at 9pm, it coincided with the broadcast of the first jackpot winner in the UK version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", which had been filmed the Sunday before the broadcast. ITV was accused of engineering this in order to damage the final episode's expected high ratings,