Double Fantasy (Remaster) (CD)

After exiting the Beatles, John Lennon cast off all artistic shackles and explored his muse fervently. Employing everything from primal screams to hard-rock minimalism, 1950s rock & roll, and plaintive balladry, Lennon simultaneously exorcised his personal demons and promoted a vision of utopian possibilities for the world's future. After a five-year retreat from the spotlight, during which he concentrated on raising his son Sean, John re-emerged with the striking comeback album DOUBLE FANTASY, on which he was aided, as ever, by his constant life/art companion Yoko Ono. Lennon's newly re-energized progress was tragically halted shortly after the album's release by the bullets of a crazed assassin's gun.

Yoko Ono began as an avant garde conceptual artist in the '60s, part of the neo-Dadaist Fluxus crowd, and was a highly esteemed player in those circles. She was thrust into a much larger arena when she fell in love with and married John Lennon. Misunderstood in the early years of their relationship, she was blamed for the Beatles' inevitable breakup and her experimental compositions were widely misapprehended by pop audiences. Her more accessible work with Lennon, like DOUBLE FANTASY, won her more mainstream acceptance, and even after her husband's death she has continued as a vital solo artist.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  General Rock & Pop
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• Release Date: October 10, 2000
• Label: Capitol/EMI Records
• UPC: 724352873920
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106257818
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Rolling Stone - Ranked #29 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The 80s" survey. (11/89)
Q (3/00, p.127) - Included in Q Magazine's "Best Relationship Albums Of All Time" - "...[its] lovey-dovey optimism [was] described as a 'Heart Play', it shouts its love from the rooftops..."
Q (12/00, pp.140-1) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A man turning 40 writing about his son, his wife, and, on 'Watching The Wheels', his newfound inner peace..."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/00, p.92) - "...Sharp-end-of-the-mainstream studio rock in which Lennon's songs are eclipsed by the parallel performances by Yoko with which they alternate..."

Personnel: John Lennon (vocals, guitar); Yoko Ono (vocals); Earl Slick, Hugh McCraken (guitar); Matthew Cunningham (dulcimer); Randy Stein (English concertina); Howard Johnson, Grant Hungerford, John Parran, Seldon Powell, George "Young" Opalisky, Roger Rosenberg, David Tofani, Ronald Tooley (horns); George Small (keyboards); Ed Walsh (synthesizer); Tony Levin (bass); Andy Newmark (drums); Robert Greenidge (steel drums); Arthur Jenkins, Jr. (percussion); Michelle Simpson, Cassandra Wooten, Cheryl Mason Jacks, Eric Troyer, Benny Cummings Singers, The Kings Temple Choir (background vocals).

Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jack Douglas.

Reissue producer: Yoko Ono.

Principally recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Yoko Ono.

Digitally remastered by George Marino (2000, Sterling Sound, New York, New York).

In one of music history's crueler twists of fate, John Lennon was just beginning to make an aesthetic/commercial comeback when he was assassinated in 1980. Earlier that year, the release of DOUBLE FANTASY (after a long layoff from recording, mostly spent raising his young son Sean) let Lennon fans know that he and Yoko were still capable of flaunting their creativity on record. Lennon had matured as a person as well as an artist over the preceding several years, after years of personal trials, and his personal renaissance was evident on DOUBLE FANTASY, with it's cheery, accessible pop tunes celebrating the simple joys of family life.

This not being a McCartney album, things never get overly sentimental, even on Lennon's odes to Sean (the shimmering ballad "Beautiful Boy") and Yoko (the '50s-influenced "[Just Like] Starting Over.") Lennon was too complex an artist to release a mindless happy-face album, and even his sunniest observations are deepened by the complexities of his compositional genius. For her part, Yoko contributes some of the finest songs of her career, like the simple but movingly poetic "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him." Lennon's older, wiser worldview is best summed up by the philosophical (and engagingly bouncy) "Watching the Wheels."

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