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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.
[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 ...
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.