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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.
In 1969, Lennon composed the song "Come Together" [1] for the Beatles' album Abbey Road. Inspired by the Chuck Berry tune "You Can't Catch Me", [2] it bore a melodic resemblance to the original—and Lennon took the third line of the second verse ("Here come [old] flat-top") for the new lyric. [1]
After their break-up, Lennon recorded over 150 songs as a solo artist. Between 1968 and 1969, Lennon released three avant-garde experimental albums with wife Yoko Ono, [a] as well as a live album and two singles, "Give Peace a Chance" and "Cold Turkey", with the Plastic Ono Band. [5] [6] His debut single before the Beatles' break-up was ...
Sean Ono Lennon has assumed the mantle of managing his family’s singular musical legacy. A deeply moving 11-minute animated short called War Is Over!, earned an Academy Award in March. The ...
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Acoustic is a compilation album of John Lennon demos, studio and live performances that feature his acoustic guitar work and was released in 2004. Although it failed to chart in the United Kingdom, Acoustic reached number 31 in the United States with sales of 27,858 copies, becoming John Lennon's best charting posthumous US release since 1988's Imagine: John Lennon soundtrack.
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.
Double Fantasy is the fifth studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the final one before Lennon's 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.