I first came across John Lennon’s album ‘Walls and Bridges’ in the late 1980s when I stumbled across it in the record library. At the time I had just bought my first stereo system with a record deck, tuner, twin cassette decks and CD player but as CDs were new and expensive was still borrowing them from the Leicester record library to enjoy music on this new medium!
In my bedroom, I loaded up the CD and sat back on the sofa to soak up the wonderful music and much improved clarity of sound that CDs gave us in a time when scratched and worn out records were the norm (I practically wore my collection out playing them so much and had to rebuy some records!)
I particularly like the drama of this song. It’s so massively self indulgent it just screams at you which (coupled with the orchestra and the influence of Phil Spector) I must admit I find massively appealing. The songs on Walls and Bridges deviate from Lennon’s almost mandatory post Beatles desire to produce music about his love of Yoko, and instead look for new themes and ideas and as such makes for a truly great album. This song is my personal favourite from the album.
Now listen to the song….
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