Track Listing

1. I'm Stepping Out
2. Sleepless Night
3. Don't Wanna Face It
4. Don't Be Scared
5. Nobody Told Me
6. O Sanity
7. Borrowed Time
8. Your Hands
9. Forgive Me My Little Flower Princess
10. Let Me Count The Ways
11. Grow Old With Me
12. You're The One
13. Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him
14. I'm Moving On
15. I'm Stepping Out
16. Interview

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25276 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Originally released in 1984, four years after Lennon's death, Milk And Honey is probably best thought of as a companion piece to the better-known Double Fantasy. Like Double Fantasy, Milk & Honey contains equal but separate contributions from Lennon and Ono: lashings of dreadful, self-indulgent arty noodling (mostly, but not exclusively, Ono's) interspersed by sharp, pugnacious songwriting (mostly, but not exclusively, Lennon's). The subject matter throughout is the one that preoccupies all Lennon and Ono's collaborations: themselves and each other (the album's sub-title is "A Heart Play"). This is, very occasionally, undeniably touching. It is much more often as cringe-inducing as overhearing cooing lovers on a bus--Lennon and Ono always believed that we could never have too much information. The best moments here are those infrequent ones when Lennon directs his gaze somewhere other than the adoring eyes of Ono--notably the exuberant "Nobody Told Me". The extra tracks on this new edition are three new paeans to themselves by Lennon and Ono, and an interview with the pair recorded shortly before Lennon's death, in which he reiterates his subscription to the philosophy of absurd, naïve utopianism that tends to make obvious sense to people rich enough to do as they please. --Andrew Mueller

CD Description
Released four years after John Lennon's murder in 1980, this collection of previously unreleased recordings includes the artist's finished songs and demos, as well as contributions from Yoko Ono that reveal her growing confidence in the studio. It's a sign of the quality and amount of the couple's output that there's little, if any disposable material here.Highlights include Lennon's wide-eyed "Nobody Told Me", thepoignant lilt of "Borrowed Time", and Yoko's endearing reggae lullaby, "Don't Be Scared". A brief but poignant interview with the couple, recorded mere hours before Lennon was shot, makes a sobering coda.

Customer Reviews

So much more to give....
John wasn't finished with us, not by a long shot, but a certain someone made that choice for him. This album was like a vol.2 of "Double Fantasy". But for Lennon fans both albums has one major flaw: YOKO. Her songs on the albums aren't the worst thing she's ever done, but coulden't they have made an album each, so you could seperate it, and just listen to John or Yoko. As for this album, I'll be concentrating on John only. 1."I'm Stepping Out" is a great rocker. It would have been an ekstra bonus if it had been the complete take with the second verse "called up the doctor...". That song is also represented by a home demo. 3."I don't wanna face it" is just as catchy. 5."Nobody Told Me" was a major hit at the time this album was first released in '84. 7."Borrowed Time" is a great reggae-like track.
9."(Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princes" sounds a bit unfinished, but I woulden't have missed it for the world. 11."Grow Old With Me" the classic that never were. If only John had gotten the chance to make a studio recording of this fantastic song. The sound on this demo has been improved since the original release. Then we have the '84 mix of Yoko's "Every Man Has A Woman..."
with (almost) only John's vocals on it. Finally we get a 22 min. segment of his very last interview. I don't know about you but when he, just 5 hours before his death says "I always considered my work one piece, that won't be finished until I'm dead and buired, and I hope that's a long long time.." I get a lump in the throat!. So much more to give.

What an uplifting album
When I got this album I expected the songs to be poor quality rejects from the Double Fantasy sessions, but my my, I was in for a surprise.
Right from the start of the album there is a great feel in every song. My favourite Lennon song on this album is "I'm Stepping Out" because it just somes up a huge part of his life at that time (and I find the tune reeealy catcky). My favourite Ono song has to be "Don't be scared". I know lots of people easily criticise Yoko Ono for her avant garde style of singing, but I don't see anything wrong with her voice. This song is a real lifter, and to have written it shortly after your husband has been shot must have been really hard. The interview at the end, as another reviewer said, really does leave a "lump in your throught" at many points. It is so ironic.
For any true John/Yoko fan, this album is a must!

John AND Yoko at their absolute finest!
This album is fantastic - both John AND Yoko's (with the odd slip-ups here and there) are some of the best songs in their career. Yoko's tracks especially have moved on and become more mainstream after the dissolution of the Plastic Ono Band. It's easy to say, with her past that her songs arn't good - but they really are beautiful and personally, many sound like the "Let's Dance" LP by David Bowie to me!
"I'm Stepping Out" is a funky, slightly moving story of John as a bored housewife in the Dakota, "Sleepless Night" is a brilliant Yoko track that's very catchy and has a great funk melody to it, "I Don't Wanna Face It" is an up-beat distortion-guitar fast track from John that really is a gem of this album, "Don't Be Scared" is a Yoko track of a little less quality than her others on the album, but very 1984 and sweet for the open ear! "Nobody Told Me" is a fast, jumpy John track and probably the best on the album - all about how the world had changed so dramatically around the 40-year old man! "O'Sanity" is a nice, slow and short little number by Yoko - little structure, but beautiful melody in Yoko's questioning of her sanity, "Borrowed Time" is an attempt by John at reggae after listening to Bob Marley tapes in Bermuda and is another standout track on the album! "Your Hands" is a lovely Yoko song combining Japanese with English - a great song, but could've been a little shorter, "(Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess" is really quite a bad one from John (the Yoko tracks are better!) and I think that if John had been alive to make this album properly it would have been replaced with a newer song. Now onto the jewels in the crown of the album "Let Me Count the Ways" (Yoko) and "Grow Old with Me" (John) are absolutely beautiful home recordings inspired from poems by Robert and Elizabeth Browning (who JohnandYoko joked they were reincarnations of!)and are the best piano ballads I have EVER heard. There is a MUCH MUCH better version of John's "Grow Old with Me" on "Wonsaponatime" and the Lennon Anthology, after being mixed and orchestrated. "You're The One" is a sweet and funky Yoko track where she wonders how to tell John he's The One - a standout track. Bonus tracks: "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" is a good Yoko song, and this is John's version of it, "Stepping Out (home version)" is an acoustic home version of I'm Stepping Out, "I'm Moving On" is an okay Yoko song that I think was on Double Fantasy. The very long interview with JohnandYoko perfectly ends this fantastic album - recorded only five hours before John's death, it sees him reflecting over his life, philosophising and getting very excited about getting back to work! A top class album...makes you wonder why it's been out of print for a decade!