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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.
Recorded at EMI Studios on 27 September 1970, [4] the song features only Lennon, singing and playing an acoustic guitar as his backing. The chord progression is very simple, and builds on A-minor and G-major, with a short detour to D-major in one line of the chorus.
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.
[5] [6] As she does this, Urish and Bielen describe Lennon's "screeching" guitar playing as "[urging] her on." [5] In Lennon and Ono's joint 1980 interview with Playboy, Ono said: John is saying in his song [Starting Over], OK, we had the energy in the Sixties, in the Seventies we separated, but let's start over in the Eighties. He's reaching ...
Engraved in the timepiece is a sweet message from the Beatles singer’s widow that reads: "(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER LOVE YOKO 10·9·1980 N.Y.C ." Before Lennon was shot and killed in December ...
Starting Over may refer to: . In music: . Starting Over (Chris Stapleton album) "Starting Over" (Chris Stapleton song), the title track Starting Over (Raspberries album), and a song from that album
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 ...
Milk and Honey is the sixth and final studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in January 1984, three years after Lennon’s murder.It is Lennon's eighth and final album, and the first posthumous release of new Lennon music, having been recorded in the last months of his life during and following the sessions for his 1980 album Double Fantasy.