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"Remember" is one of several songs on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band that Rodriguez views as documenting "a litany of letdowns". [22] Music critic Wilfrid Mellers regards the theme of "Remember" to be the debunking of parents' dreams for their children as being as phony as television or movie scripts. [6]
Jon Wiener took the title of this song for his 1999 book, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, about Nixon's attempt to deport Lennon in 1972. [24] The title is used for a 2020 compilation album of Lennon's greatest songs, remixed from scratch by his son Sean. The album was released on 9 October 2020, John Lennon's 80th birthday.
Phil Spector co-produced Lennon's albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), Imagine (1971), Some Time in New York City (1972) and Rock 'n' Roll (1975). Lennon and Ono performed four songs on Some Time in New York City (1972) live with Frank Zappa and his band the Mothers of Invention.
The lyrics of "Mother" address both of Lennon's parents, each of whom abandoned him in his childhood. [4] His father, Alf, left the family when Lennon was an infant. [4] His mother, Julia, did not live with her son, although they had a good relationship; she was killed in a car accident on 15 July 1958 by an off-duty policeman named Eric Clague when Lennon was 17. [4]
Mellers sees Lennon's later song "Oh Yoko!" from the Imagine to be a "positive counterpart" to "My Mummy's Dead", being addressed to his wife Yoko Ono rather than his mother. [4] Mellers notes that both songs are in the same key and utilise the "Three Blind Mice" melody, which is also reminiscent of the melody of the Beatles ' " All You Need Is ...
The song expresses Lennon's disillusionment with a world dominated by what he saw as false religion and idols, and warns against being taken in by such beliefs. [ 1 ] Recorded at EMI Studios on 27 September 1970, [ 2 ] the instrumentation, style, and production of the song are typical of Lennon's Plastic Ono Band era work.
6. "A World Without Love" by Peter and Gordon. 1964 "A World Without Love" was a U.K. chart-topper for the pop duo Peter and Gordon. Despite being credited to “Lennon-McCartney,” it was ...
"Julia" was originally released as the final song on side two of The Beatles on 22 November 1968. [10] In 1976, it was released as the B-side of the "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" single. [11] In 1988, "Julia" was one of the nine Beatles songs on the soundtrack album Imagine: John Lennon. In 2006, a portion was used for the Love album, mixed with ...