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"(Just Like) Starting Over" was the first single released from Double Fantasy and the first new recording Lennon had released since he left the music industry in 1975. [3] It was chosen by Lennon not because he felt it was the best track on the album, but because it was the most appropriate following his five-year absence from the recording industry.
[1] [a] In total, the song contains 118 [2] [3] or 119 [4] [5] [b] references to historical people, places, events, and phenomena. [6] The idea for creating a song chronicling news events and personalities originally came to Joel from a conversation he had with Sean Lennon , wherein Lennon claimed that nothing of note happened in the news ...
Double Fantasy is the fifth studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the final one before his death.Released in November 1980 on Geffen Records, the album marked Lennon's return to recording music full-time, following his five-year hiatus to raise his son Sean.
Lennon's debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, was released in late 1970. [7] Influenced by primal scream therapy, its songs are noted for their intense nature and "raw" sound, [8] containing personal lyrics dealing with themes of loss, abandonment, and suffering. [7] [9] Its follow-up, Imagine, was released in 1971. [10]
Stridently political, [1] the song is a commentary on the difference between social classes. According to Lennon, it is about working class people being processed into the middle classes, into the "machine". [2] Lennon also said, "I think it's a revolutionary song – it's really just revolutionary. I just think its concept is revolutionary.
The cover features a profile black and white photo of Lennon, taken the day he returned his MBE. [ 4 ] The versions of the album include a 19-track version (1 CD, or 2LPs), a 36-track version (2 CDs, 4 12" LPs, or 9 10" LPs), and additional 2 CDs + Blu-Ray with a 124-page book.
The opening chords and cadence of what would become "Grow Old With Me" can clearly be heard in Take 2 of "Memories", [11] as can what would become the descending ending chords of "Grow Old With Me". Lennon also sang part of the same melody to the lyrics of "Watching the Wheels" in that song's early stages of development. [12]
"Watching the Wheels" is a single by John Lennon released posthumously in 1981, after his murder. The B-side features Yoko Ono's "Yes, I'm Your Angel." It was the third and final single released from Lennon and Ono's album Double Fantasy, and reached No. 10 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 7 on Cashbox's Top 100. [1]