Tracklistings come from MusicBrainz. You can add or edit information about Double Fantasy at musicbrainz. Find out more about our use of this data , and also our policy on profanity. Find out more about our use of this data. A far tougher record than is understood by those who have only heard the singles. Sean Egan Double Fantasy had its worldwide release on 17 November In the United States it fared better, charting at number 25 before rising to 12 and then It remained at the top of the chart for eight weeks.
And then later, he had also worked with Yoko on her album Feeling The Space. I liked Jack right away, y'know he was a really cool guy. Very funny, very smart, very interesting.
We asked producer Jack Douglas — who first met and worked with the Lennon's at the Record Plant in — why they chose to record the album at rival studio, the Hit Factory: ["He couldn't go to Record Plant anymore because he had to go through a front door. You know that that record was a secret and no one was supposed to know. He didn't want to be photographed walking in and out of Record Plant, so he just asked me to pick any other studio that was at least in midtown, but he could get in.
Douglas explained the framework of his relationship with John and Yoko: ["Y'know, we were friends, but it was a professional relationship — it was a friendship, too.
I didn't presume anything and I had no agenda with them. That's why we even got along. Absolutely no agenda. Fred Seaman says that despite the Lennon's comments in the press at the time, Double Fantasy didn't start out as a joint project between John and Yoko, and only became a "double bill" at Yoko's insistence: ["The record that eventually became Double Fantasy took shape.
And then it became what it ultimately was — a 'Heart Play'; the two of them on one record with the tracks interspersed. Seaman recalls that although fully confident during the initial tracking sessions, Lennon's insecurities at being absent from the rock marketplace for half-a-decade kicked in and prolonged the overdubbing process throughout the fall of ["What happened then , was that they started tweaking. Y'know, both John and Yoko started second-guessing themselves, and that's when it started to get bogged down.
And then there were endless overdubs. Y'know, the horn players were brought in, and that was all overdubbed. But then in the end, John — because he was so insecure — he just started tinkering with the songs, and I'm sure he was driving Jack crazy. And he just drew this out, y'know, because, he was never satisfied; he's a perfectionist. Released on November 17, , John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's "Double Fantasy" had scarcely been in stores for three weeks before the former Beatle's senseless murder on December 8.
In spite of the incredible buzz surrounding their first new album release in more than five years, the early reviews were lukewarm, if not outright caustic. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Steve Pond panned the album, warning that "those expecting the return of the mythical Lennon — a man with an insightful, brilliant mind and a biting wit — will be sorely disillusioned by 'Double Fantasy.
By contrast, the UK press was downright merciless. In the intervening years since John's last solo album , the county had become swept up in the scrappy, often violent punk movement and its growing clash with the industry's privileged, seemingly less-relevant mainstays.
Clearly working from this perspective, an unsigned reviewer in Melody Maker commented that "the whole thing positively reeks of an indulgent sterility. It's a godawful yawn!
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