Double Fantasy
Strange as it seems now, the last album John Lennon released in his lifetime was intended as a comeback, or rather as a parting wave at retirement: "Watching the Wheels" and "Beautiful Boy" celebrate the joys he found outside the star system, and "(Just Like) Starting Over" is a slightly awkward rocker about rejoining the domestic world that's also sort of about rejoining the pop world. The studio-pro arrangements are a little too slick, but Lennon rarely sounded happier. Ono, whose songs alternate with his in a series of thematic diptychs, was taking a stab at channeling her artier impulses into pop and is generally less successful--her voice works in a context of art-weirdness, but not as well in conventional tunes. This 2000 remastered reissue is fleshed out with a demo of "Help Me to Help Myself" and Ono's solo version of "Walking on Thin Ice," which was recorded on the same day her husband was shot to death. --Douglas Wolk more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-15-2008
- Gimme Some Truth
About three weeks before some festering sore of a human being gunned him down, John Lennon released his last work on a joint album with wife Yoko Ono called Double Fantasy. It was, in part, a gift to all those fans riveted to the...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-09-2008
- it's a great album
Yes, it's not only a great album, but it's also a 5 star album, and here's why-For years, I've been a John Lennon fan, and Double Fantasy is the album that introduced me to this mans great songwriting skills. Yes, I was familiar with...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-07-2008
- (4.5 stars) THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy (1980) was John's much publicized entrance back into the music world after five years of retirement devoted to being a househusband, and father to his young son, Sean. John's family and life at...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-29-2008
- One of Lennon's best that Yoko almost ruins.
I bought during a strange stage in my life where I was trying to figure out where I stood and how I was going to stand there. It has been about six years since I purchased this album initially, and now that I own on it on vinyl thanks to...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-15-2008
- Gimme Some Truth
About three weeks before some festering sore of a human being gunned him down, John Lennon released his last work on a joint album with wife Yoko Ono called Double Fantasy. It was, in part, a gift to all those fans riveted to the...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-31-2007
- We thought they'd have time to get better together....
It was a bad time. The Ayatollah had 52 Americans captive at our own embassy in Tehran (although Steve Dahl did come up with a great parody of the Knack's big hit that year, "Ah-ah-ah-ay-a-to-lah"). We were sure the world would end...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-08-2008
- Sympathy for that one song? Is that it?
Earl Slick and Rick Neilsen were the guitarists on this...album. But the juxtaposition of Yukko Ohno's..."songs" in between every one of Lennon's, kind of make this, his final album - a joke. "I'm Losing You" IS a good song, though..
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