Track Listing
1. Starting Over, (Just Like)
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss
3. Cleanup Time
4. Give Me Something
5. I'm Losing You
6. I'm Moving 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 - (dialogue)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Howard Johnson, Tony Levin | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: John Lennon (vocals, guitar); Yoko Ono (vocals); Earl Slick, Hugh McCraken (guitar); Matthew Cunningham (dulcimer); Randy Stein (English concertina); Howard Johnson, Grant Hungerford, John Parran, Seldon Powell, George "Young" Opalisky, Roger Rosenberg, David Tofani, Ronald Tooley (horns); George Small (keyboards); Ed Walsh (synthesizer); Tony Levin (bass); Andy Newmark (drums); Robert Greenidge (steel drums); Arthur Jenkins, Jr. (percussion); Michelle Simpson, Cassandra Wooten, Cheryl Mason Jacks, Eric Troyer, Benny Cummings Singers, The Kings Temple Choir (background vocals).
Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jack Douglas.
Reissue producer: Yoko Ono.
Principally recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Yoko Ono.
Digitally remastered by George Marino (2000, Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
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 well as an artist over the preceding several years, after years of personal trials, and his personal renaissance was evident on DOUBLE FANTASY, with it's cheery, accessible pop tunes celebrating the simple joys of family life.
This not being a McCartney album, things never get overly sentimental, even on Lennon's odes to Sean (the shimmering ballad "Beautiful Boy") 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. For her part, Yoko contributes some of the finest songs of her career, like the simple but movingly poetic "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him." Lennon's older, wiser worldview is best summed up by the philosophical (and engagingly bouncy) "Watching the Wheels."
Editorial Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's Best Relationship Albums Of All Time - ...[its] lovey-dovey optimism [was] described as a 'Heart Play', it shouts its love from the rooftops...
Q (03/01/2000)
...Sharp-end-of-the-mainstream studio rock in which Lennon's songs are eclipsed by the parallel performances by Yoko with which they alternate...
Mojo (11/01/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...A man turning 40 writing about his son, his wife, and, on 'Watching The Wheels', his newfound inner peace...
Q (12/01/2000)
Rolling Stone Ranked #29 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The 80s survey. (11/89)
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