Double Fantasy

Double Fantasy
Double Fantasy
Studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Released 19 November 1980
Recorded The Hit Factory, NYC
4 August 1980 – late September 1980
Genre Rock
Length 45:05
48:07 (Stripped Down)
Label Geffen
Producer John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jack Douglas
John Lennon chronology
Shaved Fish
(1975)		 Double Fantasy
(1980)		 The John Lennon Collection
(1982)
Yoko Ono chronology
A Story
(1974)		 Double Fantasy
(1980)		 Season of Glass
(1981)
Singles from Double Fantasy
  1. "(Just Like) Starting Over"
    Released: 24 October 1980
  2. "Woman"
    Released: 16 January 1981
  3. "Watching the Wheels"
    Released: 13 March 1981
Double Fantasy Stripped Down
Cover of the 2010 remix with stripped down production.
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars link
Robert Christgau (A) link
Rolling Stone 5/5 stars (Reissue)[1]

Double Fantasy is an album released by John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, in 1980. Though initially poorly received, the album is notable for its association with Lennon's murder three weeks after its release, whereupon it become a worldwide commercial success, and went on to win the 1981 Album of the Year at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards.

Contents

Background

Following the birth of his son Sean in 1975, Lennon had put his career on hold to raise him. After five years of little musical activity aside from recording the occasional demo in his apartment in New York, Lennon felt ready to resume work. He was quoted as saying that when making the album, his ambition was to "do something as good as "Heroes", the 1977 album by David Bowie.[2]

In the summer of 1980, Lennon made a sailing trip through treacherous waters from Newport, Rhode Island to Bermuda. Almost losing his life in that journey, he began to write new songs, occasionally reworking the earlier demos.[3] He stated that he was the most content he had ever felt in all his years and he celebrated this and the love for his family in the lyrics of his new work.[citation needed]

Ono also wrote many songs, inspired with new confidence after Lennon had stated that he believed that contemporary popular music such as the B-52's "Rock Lobster" bore similarities to Ono's earlier work.[4]

The couple decided to release their work on the same album, the first time they had done so since 1972's politically-charged Some Time in New York City. In stark contrast to that album, Double Fantasy (subtitled A Heart Play) was a collection of songs wherein husband and wife would conduct a musical dialogue. The album took its title from a species of freesia, seen in the Bermuda Botanical Gardens, whose name Lennon regarded as a perfect description of his marriage to Ono.[5]

Recording

Ono approached producer Jack Douglas, with whom both Lennon and she had worked before, and gave him Lennon's demos to listen to. “My immediate impressions were that I was going to have a hard time making it better than the demos because there was such intimacy in the demos,” Douglas told Uncut's Chris Hunt in 2005.[3]

They produced dozens of songs, enough to fill Double Fantasy and a large part of a projected second album, Milk and Honey.

Douglas brought Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos of the band Cheap Trick [6] to play on Lennon's "I'm Losing You" and Ono's "I'm Moving On", but were eventually re-recorded with the studio musicians. (The Cheap Trick version of "I'm Losing You" was included on the John Lennon Anthology collection released in 1998.[7])

Reception

Unimpressed with its cosy domesticity, critical reaction to the album was largely scathing—"a self-obsessed disaster" according to one reviewer.[8] However, three weeks after the album's release, Lennon was murdered and many of the poor reviews were withdrawn from publication.[4]

In the UK album charts, the album had peaked at #14 then slipped to #46[9] whilst in the US, the album had slowly risen to #11. Upon Lennon's murder, the album jumped to #1 in the US chart, where it stayed for eight weeks[10] and in the UK, it jumped to #2, where it remained for seven weeks before finally spending two weeks at #1.[9]

In 1982, Douglas, Lennon and Ono won the 1981 Album of the Year for Double Fantasy at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards. In 1989 the album was ranked #29 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.[11]

Aftermath

In 2003, a copy of the album that Lennon had signed for his murderer only hours before his death was put on sale at a price of $525,000 (equivalent to $626,760 today).[12]

In 2010, a two-CD set called Double Fantasy Stripped Down, which included a newly remastered copy of the original album along with an alternative version of the album featuring simpler arrangements, was released.

Track listing

Original

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "(Just Like) Starting Over"   John Lennon 3:56
2. "Kiss Kiss Kiss"   Yoko Ono 2:41
3. "Cleanup Time"   Lennon 2:58
4. "Give Me Something"   Ono 1:35
5. "I'm Losing You"   Lennon 3:57
6. "I'm Moving On"   Ono 2:20
7. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"   Lennon 4:02
8. "Watching the Wheels"   Lennon 3:35
9. "Yes, I'm Your Angel"   Ono 3:08
10. "Woman"   Lennon 3:22
11. "Beautiful Boys"   Ono 2:55
12. "Dear Yoko"   Lennon 2:34
13. "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him"   Ono 4:02
14. "Hard Times Are Over"   Ono 3:20

2000 re-issue bonus tracks

No. Title Writer(s) Length
15. "Help Me to Help Myself"   Lennon 2:37
16. "Walking on Thin Ice"   Ono 6:00
17. "Central Park Stroll" (Dialogue)   0:17

2010 Stripped Down mixes

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "(Just Like) Starting Over"   Lennon 4:24
2. "Kiss Kiss Kiss"   Ono 2:45
3. "Cleanup Time"   Lennon 3:56
4. "Give Me Something"   Ono 1:31
5. "I'm Losing You"   Lennon 4:26
6. "I'm Moving On"   Ono 2:28
7. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"   Lennon 3:50
8. "Watching the Wheels"   Lennon 3:32
9. "Yes, I'm Your Angel"   Ono 2:53
10. "Woman"   Lennon 3:45
11. "Beautiful Boys"   Ono 3:16
12. "Dear Yoko"   Lennon 3:03
13. "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him"   Ono 4:46
14. "Hard Times Are Over"   Ono 3:38

Accolades

Grammy Awards

Year Nominated work Award Result
1982 Double Fantasy Album of the Year[13] Won
Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male[14] Nominated
"(Just Like) Starting Over" Record of the Year[14] Nominated

Charts

Chart positions

Chart (1980/81) Position
Australian Kent Music Report Chart[15] 1
Austrian Albums Chart[16] 1
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[17] 1
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[18] 4
French SNEP Albums Chart [19] 2
Italian Albums Chart[20] 6
Japanese Oricon LP Chart[21] 2
New Zealand Albums Chart [22] 1
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[23] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[24] 1
UK Albums Chart [9] 1
U.S. Billboard 200 [25] 1
West German Media Control Albums Chart [26] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1980) Position
UK Albums Chart[27] 12
Chart (1981) Position
Australian Albums Chart[15] 1
Austrian Albums Chart[28] 2
Canadian Albums Chart[29] 3
Italian Albums Chart[20] 9
Japanese Albums Chart[30] 29
UK Albums Chart[27] 10
U.S. Billboard 200[31] 2

Certifications & Sales

Region Certification Sales/shipments
France (SNEP)[32] Platinum 533,900[33]
Germany (BVMI)[34] Gold 250,000^
Japan (Oricon Charts) 306,470[35]
United Kingdom (BPI)[36] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[37] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Personnel

  • David Tofani – horns.
  • Ronald Tooley – horns.
  • Tony Davillo – horn arrangements and musical associate.
  • Michelle Simpson, Cassandra Wooten, Cheryl Mason Jacks, Eric Troyer, Benny Cummings Singers, The Kings Temple Choir – background vocals.
  • Toshihiro Hamaya – production assistant.
  • Frederic Seaman – production assistant.
  • Julie Last – assistant engineer.
  • George Marino – original mastering and remastering.
  • Lee DeCarlo – engineer.
  • Jon Smith – assistant engineer.
  • Anthony Davilio – musical associate.
  • James A. Ball – assistant engineer.
  • Bob Gruen – photography.
  • Kishin Shinoyama – cover photo and photography.
  • Karla Merrifield – reissue art coordinator.
  • Nishi F Saimaru – photography.
  • David Spindel – photography.
  • Lilo Raymond – photography.
  • Christopher Whorf – artwork.
  • Bruce Replogle - publicist.

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7. ^ Musicians listed in booklet for John Lennon Anthology for I'm Losing You

External links

v · d · eJohn Lennon
Studio albums
With Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins · Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions · Wedding Album · Some Time in New York City · Double Fantasy · Milk and Honey · Double Fantasy Stripped Down
Live albums
Compilations
Shaved Fish · The John Lennon Collection · Menlove Ave. · Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon · Wonsaponatime · Instant Karma: All-Time Greatest Hits · Acoustic · Peace, Love & Truth · Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon · Power to the People: The Hits
Soundtracks
Imagine: John Lennon · The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Box sets
Lennon · John Lennon Anthology · Gimme Some Truth · John Lennon Signature Box
Books
Films
How I Won the War (1967) · Two Virgins (1968) · No. 5 (1968) · Honeymoon (1969) · Freedom (1970) · Fly (1970) · Legs (1970)  · Apotheosis (1970) · Erection (1971) · Imagine (1972) · Dynamite Chicken (1972) · Oh! Calcutta! (1972) · John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985) · Imagine: John Lennon (1988) · In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000) · The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) · The Killing of John Lennon (2006) · Chapter 27 (2007) · I Met the Walrus (2007) · Nowhere Boy (2009) · Lennon Naked (2010)
Family
Alfred Lennon (father) · Julia Lennon (mother) · Mimi Smith (aunt) · George Smith (uncle) · Julia Baird (half-sister) · Cynthia Lennon (1st wife) · Julian Lennon (1st son) · Yoko Ono (2nd wife) · Sean Lennon (2nd son)
Related
People
Media
The Lost Lennon Tapes  · Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music (concert)  · ROOTS: John Lennon Sings The Great Rock & Roll Hits  · Pussy Cats · Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon  · Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur  · The 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute: Live from the Beacon Theatre, NYC  · A Toot and a Snore in '74  · Lennon (musical)  · Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (DVD)  · The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Articles
v · d · eYoko Ono
Studio albums
With John Lennon
Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins  · Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions  · Wedding Album  · Some Time in New York City  · Double Fantasy  · Milk and Honey
Live albums
Compilations
Other albums
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