John Lennon's Last Radical Act

[omega minimo]

Woman I can hardly express,
My mixed emotion at my thoughtlessness,
After all I'm forever in your debt,
And woman I will try express,
My inner feelings and thankfullness,
For showing me the meaning of success,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,

Woman I know you understand
The little child inside the man,
Please remember my life is in your hands,
And woman hold me close to your heart,
However, distant don't keep us apart,
After all it is written in the stars,
oooh well, well,
oooh well, well,

Woman please let me explain,
I never mean(t) to cause you sorrow or pain,
So let me tell you again and again and again,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
I love you (yeah, yeah) now and forever,
I love you (yeah, yeah)....






Rest In Peace, John

Happy Valentine's Day, Everybody


and thank you for the :loveya:

[Lint Head]

1. John's name instills fear in Re-Pubic-Rats.

He was considered a radical by Nixon and George Gordon Liddy. (I call G. Gordon 'George' because the coward that wrote 'Will' hates it.)

I loved John. I emulated him as a youth. I cried for weeks when he died.



:dem:

[omega minimo]

3. John was

assassinated

[femrap]

9. and the US gov't

(CIA) did it.

[TheUnspeakable]

20. Yes. they did..

ever seen this Mack White comic

"Dead Silence in the Brain"

[omega minimo]

22. the unspeakable, indeed.

great comic: White left out the military crouch

both "nuts" supposedly set off by The Catcher In The Rye.

[femrap]

29. Thanks for the link...

I hadn't seen that. Wow! There was no way that our gov't could allow a man run around the country preaching Love and Peace.

[SpookyCat]

10. I cried for weeks when he died.

Me too, Lint Head. I was in Jr High, wandered around for days after in a fog. I actually have trouble listening to Double Fantasy, because I got it that Christmas, and it's indelibly linked for me.

[omega minimo]

15. It was right after the Reagan "landslide"

2 immensely unbelievable events in such a short time

[TBF]

2. Such a beautiful soul ... thanks for posting this n/t

[blues90]

4. To me it seems like light years ago and I wonder

what he would be saying now if he saw this new high tech world which didn't exist back then in 1980.

[cherish44]

23. I think he'd be an internet junkie

He loved knowledge and was kind of a reclusive person at heart. He'd probably be reading DU...nice thought.

[Cetacea]

5. "For the other half of the sky"

It's never officially appeared in the lyrics but is spoken in the intro.

I will never forget that Reagan came to New York City-our city-days after Lennon was shot to announce that he would not support gun control. Just to rub it in, you see.

[omega minimo]

6. THANK YOU!!!!

I didn't recall that in the lyric........... thank you so much.....


and OMFG I forgot about that bloody Reagan doing that. :evilfrown:

[Cetacea]

7. Thank you for posting this.

I can't forgive Reagan for that. The city (and world) was still mourning. And the bastard came to our city-John's city-and pulls that off. Apparently he did this type of stuff often.

But I feel I must apologize to you for recalling Reagan in your beautiful post. Happy Valentine's Day to you!

[JeffR]

8. Wonderful post.

:pals:

[annabanana]

11. A most romantic song. . . .. .. . n/t

[Bonobo]

12. I'll bite. How is it "radical"?

[omega minimo]

18. Here's a start

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=r.co.uk/k99131.html&usg=__IByh6Cbd_yVoam-BjY9wZhDqv4w=&h=320&w=320&sz=25&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=Kvrg7HEgZn3cSM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddouble%2Bfantasy%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG


John's first album for FIVE years.
The reason being, that John committed himself to a self-imposed exile in order to bring up his son Sean. Sean was born 9th October 1975, and John felt that as he had missed so much of Julian growing up because of his commitment to the Beatles, he was not going to make the same mistake again.

True to his word, John didn't enter the studio until 4th August 1980 when he returned to the Hit Factory, New York. By this time he had amassed a large repertoire which he had, thus far, only performed in demo form (much of which has surfaced on bootlegs !). The sessions produced 22 official completed songs, the plan being to release these first 14 here, and then the remaining tracks were provisionally planned to be released in 1981 on an album already given the title, Milk And Honey.

Unreleased tracks include :
"Gone From This Place" - Recording started 7th August 1980, continues 24th August 1980
"C'mon Everybody" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"Rip It Up" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"I'm A Man" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"Be-Bop-A-Lula" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"12-bar Blues" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"Dream Lover" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"Stay" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"Mystery Train" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"Blues In The Night" - Recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
"She's A Woman" - Four takes are recorded 18th-22nd August 1980 for an unreleased video.
After the official sessions, these final demos are recorded at the Dakota:
"Real Love" a.k.a. "Girls And Boys" - Several takes in October 1980 (Take 6 is on "Imagine: John Lennon")
"Serve Yourself" - Demo recorded October 1980, it's a parody of Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody".
"Dear John" - Demo ecorded November 1980.
"Pop Is The Name Of The Game" - Demo recorded 14th November 1980.
"You Saved My Soul" - Demo recorded 14th November 1980.
"Serve Yourself" - Final demo recorded 14th November 1980.
"Walking On Thin Ice" - Yoko song, recorded right up to 8th December 1980 with John present.

Most of John's songs on the album are dedicated to Yoko, with the obvious exception of "Beautiful Boy" which is about Sean, and "Watching The Wheels" which is John's explanation to his public about his five year exile.
Yoko's song "I'm Your Angel" was the subject of a law suit raised 15th June 1981 by the publishers of the song "Makin' Whoopee". They claimed Yoko's song plagiarised the 52 year old song (originally sung by Eddie Cantor), and filed for One Million Dollars damages, and demanded the track be removed from further pressings.
This was not the only law-suit, Jack Douglas filed in July 1981 claiming he had received no royalties.

The sleeve was designed by Christopher Whorf of Art Hotel. The cover photographs were taken by Kishin Shinoyama, with the back cover being taken outside the Dakota apartment building during the summer of 1980. Incidentally, the back cover shot is considerably cropped on the C.D. version, as you can see below, and you miss the attractive shot of the bin.

On the Inner sleeve (only), "Double Fantasy" is subtitled A Heart Play. The inner sleeve contains all the lyrics, and personnel list, with no photographs.

On 24th February 1982 "Double Fantasy" is voted "Album Of The Year" at the Grammy Awards. Yoko receives the award.

With special thanks to all the people,
known and unknown, who helped us stay
in America, without whom this album
would not have been made.
love,
John & Yoko

[Bonobo]

13. Hiccup.

Think I'll have some water.

[SpookyCat]

14. Thank you omega minimo.

Such a beautiful song. Made me tear up just now.

I don't know if I'm bringing more to this than you intended, but using John's song makes good sense to me for Valentine's Day; it's both romantic and also reminds me to not take my husband for granted.

Thanks again and Happy Valentine's Day to you too.


:hug:

[omega minimo]

17. Heard it on the car radio today, out in traffic and cold heavy rain. Stopped me in my tracks.

:grouphug:

[graywarrior]

16. I still cry over losing him

[Enthusiast]

19. Thank you, Omega! Recommended!

My wife and I loved John Lennon, still do.

[omega minimo]

21. "forever and evaahhhh-ah"

:hi:

[leftchick]

24. Imagine

all of the beautiful songs he had yet to write. :cry:

[FatDave]

25. We really needed John post 9/11.

Maybe we could have stopped the madness with his help.

[DearAbby]

26. Thank you dear heart...

for this post, as I wipe the tear from my eye, and feel the tug at my heart, I will K&R this post. :loveya:

[omega minimo]

27. ..

:hug:

[abq e streeter]

28. Just watched The U.S. vs. John Lennon for the 1st time a few days ago

strange days indeed