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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.
"Kiss Kiss Kiss" is a song by Japanese singer Yoko Ono. It was originally released on Double Fantasy, her joint album with John Lennon, as well as on the B-side of his "(Just Like) Starting Over" single.
And Lennon has confirmed that although the song was originally inspired by his feelings over the phone call, it also expresses his feelings about losing Yoko Ono during their 18-month separation (i.e., his lost weekend) as well as other losses, including the loss of his mother, which was the subject of several songs on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
Like some other songs on Double Fantasy, including the hit single "(Just Like) Starting Over," one of the themes of "Cleanup Time" is rebirth, and another theme, as with "Watching the Wheels" is Lennon "coming to terms with his quiet years," during which Lennon was a househusband and Yoko Ono looked after the couple's business interests.
Also recorded during this time was the Christmas song "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". [6] Some Time in New York City (1972), a part-studio, part-live album with Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory , contained songs by both Lennon and Ono, with lyrics discussing political and social issues and topics such as sexism , incarceration , colonialism and ...
The song was the 1980 Christmas number-one single in both the UK and Ireland. In the UK, it demoted John Lennon's last single, "(Just Like) Starting Over", to number two. [1] [2] After two weeks at number one, a previous Lennon song, "Imagine", replaced it. This was a posthumous release as Lennon had been killed three weeks prior.
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"Starting Over" carries a "raw, stripped down and vulnerable" theme, [3] with Stapleton singing of looking for new horizons, in "perpetual motion". [2] The love song fuses acoustic guitar chords and a percussive shake, [5] while drummer Derek Mixon delivers a "brushed" snare rhythm, which Rolling Stone ' s Joseph Hudak said evokes Willie Nelson's version of "City of New Orleans".