Product Description

In one of music history's crueler twists of fate, John Lennon was just beginning to make an aesthetic/commercial comeback when he was assassinated in 1980. Earlier that year, the release of DOUBLE FANTASY (after a long layoff from recording, mostly spent raising his young son Sean) let Lennon fans know that he and Yoko were still capable of flaunting their creativity on record. Lennon had matured as a person as wellas an artist over the preceding several years, after years of personal trials, and his personal renaissance was evidenton DOUBLE FANTASY, with it's cheery, accessible pop tunes celebrating the simple joys of family life.
This not beinga McCartney album, things never get overly sentimental, even on Lennon's odes to Sean (the shimmering ballad "BeautifulBoy") and Yoko (the '50s-influenced "[Just Like] Starting Over".) Lennon was too complex an artist to release a mindless happy-face album, and even his sunniest observations are deepened by the complexities of his compositional genius. Forher part, Yoko contributes some of the finest songs of her career, like the simple but movingly poetic "Every Man Has aWoman Who Loves Him". Lennon's older, wiser worldview is best summed up by the philosophical (and engagingly bouncy) "Watching the Wheels".

Track Listing

1. Just Like Starting Over
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss
3. Clean Up Time
4. Give Me Something
5. I'm Losing You
6. I'm Movin' On
7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
8. Watching The Wheels
9. Yes I'm Your Angel
10. Woman
11. Beautiful Boys
12. Dear Yoko
13. Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him
14. Hard Times Are Over
15. Help Me To Help Myself
16. Walking On Thin Ice
17. Central Park Stroll

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3058 in Music
• Released on: 2000-10-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

'Double' everything for this geat legendary album!

This album was 'double' the pleasure and 'double' the quality! With two great talents on one album whose voices would compliment each other so well! This was one of the best albums from the decade that would show both John and Yoko on top form!

One of Yoko's greatest talents shone through as backing vocals on two of Lennon's greatest songs: 'Starting Over' and 'Woman' - these would not have been the same without her! Indeed, we are indebted to Yoko herself for those songs ever having been written in the first place! 'Woman' could have worked with Yoko's backing vocals alone - ironically, a song that is complete with the two. Yoko certainly made 'Starting Over' and it now seems inconceivable that had John Lennon not been killed, this record would have only peaked at number ten in the singles charts... (it had fallen eleven places from that position to number twenty-one just the week before he was shot!)

Fourteen tracks here - Yoko having the most with eight. These songs are alternated between the two singers which was a great idea and worked well. They could have each had a complete side each - separately (of the original album) for effect which would have worked equally as well, and was indeed an option, but the alternating was a 'neat' idea, thus showing off the great chemistry the two had.

Yoko's songs kick off with the fabulous 'Kiss, Kiss, Kiss', which is so typical of her style, but her most beautiful song ever, has to be 'Beautiful Boys' that uses her great vocal talent to its full potential. There is some of the best writing from both artists captured here on this album. The three major hits from John: 'Starting Over', 'Woman' and 'Watching The Wheels' - the latter that unbelievably did not even make the top twenty - a puzzle I could not figure out... Both styles of singing from each artist is a fabulous combination.

Truly an historical album produced from such a famous married couple.

I Can't Agree More With The Last Review!
I to wish i could give this album 5 stars but Yoko's tracks just don't cut it. Lennon's however were the best he'd written in ten years and the best of those were some of the best songs he'd Ever written. Don't listen to the critics who have given Lennon's music on this album a good old pasting, these songs folks are a lesson in how to write great melodies.
Buy Double Fantasy and Milk And Honey, and like the reviewer below said, make a compilation of John's tracks and you've possibly got the best Lennon album ever written and recorded.

Damn Yoko Ono!
I would have given this album 5 stars, however, in light of the fact 1/2 of the songs are crap, I just couldn't. This album would have rocked if John Lennon would have had the balls to break the evil spell Yoko Ono had over him and released it with just his tracks from the recording session. This session of course became Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey WITH Yoko's horrible contributions. Do yourself a favor and purchase both albums, then make a compilation CD by alternating just the Lennon tracks from each album. Play it back...you will quickly see(hear) what Double Fantasy should have been.