JohnLennon YokoOnoDouble Fantasy

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KISS KISS KISSCLEANUP TIME

GIVE ME SOMETHINGI’M LOSING YOUI’M MOVING ON

BEAUTIFUL BOY (DARLING BOY)WATCHING THE WHEELS

YES, I’M YOUR ANGELWOMAN

BEAUTIFUL BOYSDEAR YOKO

EVERY MAN HAS A WOMAN WHO LOVES HIMHARD TIMES ARE OVER

ORIGINAL ALBUM(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER

KISS KISS KISSCLEANUP TIME

GIVE ME SOMETHINGI’M LOSING YOUI’M MOVING ON

BEAUTIFUL BOY (DARLING BOY)WATCHING THE WHEELS

YES, I’M YOUR ANGELWOMAN

BEAUTIFUL BOYSDEAR YOKO

EVERY MAN HAS A WOMAN WHO LOVES HIMHARD TIMES ARE OVER

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fresh and unique idea. John was concernedthat another singer/songwriter couple mightdo an album of this format before us, andthought it was important to do this albumright away. But nobody did it, and nobody hasdone it since then. It was probably not a veryeasy record to make for any singer/songwritercouple. We were just very lucky that we didn'teven have a fight between us while making it.It was a miracle.”

“After the five-year hiatus, for John to comeout and do his album, the whole of the musicindustry was totally, totally excited and theyall wanted John’s music and was not veryhappy that I was there. So, while we wererecording, John really had to protect me, in somany ways.”

Double Fantasy was a brave album on John’spart, and not only for his loyalty to Yoko. Herewas a man whose image was frozen inrock’n’roll, with all its connotations of youth,rebellion and extremity. Yet his goal this timewas to address middle age, and thegeneration who had grown up with him, andto consider questions – of parenthood, ofmarriage, of mature relations between thesexes – that pop music scarcely touches.

The silvery tinkle of bells that introduces ‘(Just

Since 1975, the year his son, Sean was born, JohnLennon’s life had seen someunaccustomed tranquillity,later called the Dakota Days.

While John had devoted himself to fatherhoodand domesticity, he asked Yoko to supervisetheir business affairs. The exchange of roleswhich they excercised, gave food for thoughtto all couples then and now.

But at the time, the wider world could notcomprehend what John was doing. John’swithdrawal as a recording artist wasunprecedented.

Suddenly, in 1980, a welcome surprise washeard. John went into the studio with Yoko tomake the next album.

From its inception, then, Double Fantasy wasa John and Yoko collaboration, just as theirearly “avant garde” albums had been. And inits “Heart Play” of alternating viewpoints, itformalised a pattern they’d instinctivelyadopted on Some Time In New York City.

Yoko: “We thought Double Fantasy was a

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Like) Starting Over’ was a deliberate contrastto the ominous tolling that opened John

Lennon/Plastic Ono Band ten years earlier.Double Fantasy was to embrace the futurewith hope, and treat the past with affection.Two heroes of his youth, Elvis Presley andRoy Orbison, are playfully mimicked in John’sfirst track, a life-affirming celebration of thenew decade just dawning. Yoko respondswith ‘Kiss Kiss Kiss’, flagrantly sensuous; inthe Lennons’ mind, “double fantasy” haddefinite erotic aspects.

Yet this was not a one-dimensional depictionof bliss. ‘Cleanup Time’ tells of John’s resolveto face the future in better shape, but Yoko’s‘Give Me Something’ is a stinging challengeto show emotional engagement. ‘I’m LosingYou’ and ‘I’m Moving On’ plunge still deeperinto discord, the former like an echo of John’s“Lost Weekend” record Walls And Bridges,the latter a second instance of Yoko as theimpatient realist.

“It’s not a happy go lucky album,” she affirms.“John’s song ‘I’m Losing You’, even nowwhen I hear that, I get choked up. And ‘I’mMoving On’ Well... that was how we were.”

Tensions melt with wonderful suddenness in‘Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)’, John’s tendersong for Sean. Within the narrative flow of

this album, it’s as if the arrival of a child haswrought a transformational magic. ‘WatchingThe Wheels’ is the contented father’s defianceof a world so silly it thinks he could possiblyhave any role more important. And in ‘Yes, I’mYour Angel’, the parents enjoy a little recuper-ative time together. We reach the album’spivotal point, perhaps, in John’s outstanding‘Woman’ – a song that is often compared withhis ‘Girl’ of 15 years earlier, as a measure ofthe man’s personal development. In Yoko’s‘Beautiful Boys’ we hear a stirring message ofencouragement for any man on such a path.

The remaining songs serve to consolidate this hard-won harmony. John’s ‘Dear Yoko’,propelled by exuberant Buddy Holly gurgles,shines with the same pure joy as Imagine’s

‘Oh Yoko!’. Her own ‘Every Man Has AWoman Who Loves Him’ is similarly sweet.And her wistful ‘Hard Times Are Over’ drawsthe story to its graceful conclusion – thoughits message is subtly qualified, we note, bythe cautious addition of “for awhile”…

There would, of course, be no furtherrecordings issued in John Lennon’s lifetime.It’s true there were still some unheard songs,most notably on Double Fantasy’s intendedsequel Milk And Honey – but they were foranother day. On December 9th, 1980, the world awoke to ponder what it had lost.

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STRIPPED DOWN

Thirty years has passed.And in 2010, the year ofLennon’s 70th birthday, Yoko was happy to know that EMI was planning a bigtribute to John. She wantedto do something verypowerful to enhance theproject. ‘Stripdown,’ sheheard, was what musicianswere doing now.

“That was right up John’s alley. So I askedJack Douglas, the co-producer of the originalDouble Fantasy, to join me to make thisedition. Both Jack and I were the closestpeople to John when we were making theoriginal Double Fantasy. I’m sure John’ssudden passing was painful for Jack, too. So we hadn’t been in touch. But now I’m glad I reached to him this time. We workedwell... and fast, since we were both there forthe original recording.”

Stripped Down was re-mixed by Yoko and

Jack Douglas in Avatar Studios in New York.

“I’m so glad I decided to do this.” says Yoko.“I never liked the way songs were mixed inthe 70s and the 80s, raising the tracks andburying the voice. In this Stripdown, John’svoice comes across so powerfully. His voice,his diction, are all very clear in these remixes.His voice is going back to the days of John

Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. His soul wastalking to you directly then. Now it is inStripped Down. In that sense, this is the firstDouble Fantasy you’ll be hearing...with John’s natural voice, and his lyrics clearas a bell. He is brilliant. No other rocker wasever able to come near him in his voice, hispassion, and in his articulation. He is amodern day Shakespeare in his diction. And Stripped Down shows this.”

John Lennon’s singing voice really deserves to be heard in a pure state. It’sYoko’s belief that John’s thoughts andfeelings – so timeless in their relevance – should sound as immediate as he wishedhis message to be. Experienced this way, the songs have much the same immediacy as his powerful solo debut John Lennon/

Plastic Ono Band. Freed from the legacy of sometimes dated technology, these arenow recordings for today, and of course, forthe future.

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(Just Like) Starting Overby John Lennon

Our Life together is so precioustogetherWe have grown – we have grownAlthough our love is still specialLet’s take a chance and fly awaysomewhere alone

It’s been too long since we took the timeNo-one’s to blame, I know time flies so quicklyBut when I see you darlingIt’s like we both are falling in love againIt’ll be just like starting over Starting over

Everyday we used to make it loveWhy can’t we be making lovenice and easyIt’s time to spread our wings and flyDon’t let another day go by my loveIt’ll be just like starting overStarting over

Why don’t we take off aloneTake a trip somewhere far, far awayWe’ll be together on our own againLike we used to in the early daysWell, well, well darlingRepeat 1 & 2

Kiss Kiss Kissby Yoko Ono

Kiss kiss kiss kiss me loveJust one kiss, kiss will doKiss kiss kiss kiss me loveJust one kiss, kiss will do

Why deathWhy lifeWarm heartsCold darts

Kiss kiss kiss kiss me loveI’m bleeding inside

It’s a long, long story to tellAnd I can only show you my hell

Touch touch touch touch me loveJust one touch, touch will doTouch touch touch touch me loveJust one touch, touch will do

Why meWhy youBroken mirrorWhite terror

Touch touch touch touch me loveI’m shaking inside

It’s that faint faint sound of thechildhood bellRinging in my soul

Kiss kiss kiss kiss me loveJust one kiss, kiss will do

Cleanup Timeby John Lennon

Moonlight on the waterSunlight on my faceYou and me togetherWe are in our placeThe gods are in the heavensThe angels treat us wellThe oracle has spokenWe cast the (perfect) spell

Now it begins – let it beginCleanup Time(Show those mothers how to do it)

The queen is in the counting homeCounting out the moneyThe king is in the kitchenMaking bread and honeyNo friends and yet no enemies

Absolutely freeNo rats aboard the magic ship Of (perfect) harmony

Now it beginsCleanup Time(Show those mothers how to do it)

However far we travelWherever we may roamThe center of the circleWill always be our home

The gods are in the heavensThe angels treat us wellThe oracle has spokenWe cast the (perfect) spell

Give Me Somethingby Yoko Ono

The food is coldYour eyes are coldThe window’s coldThe bed’s cold

Give me something that’s not cold,come on, come onGive me something that’s not cold,come on, come onGive me something that’s not cold,come on, come on

The chair’s hardYour voice is hardThe money’s hardThe living’s hard

Give me something that’s not hard,come on, come onGive me something that’s not hard,come on, come onGive me something that’s not hard,come on, come onGive me, give me

And I’ll give you my heartbeat

And a bit of tear and fleshIt’s not very much but while it’s thereYou can have it, you can have it

I’m Losing Youby John Lennon

Here in some stranger’s roomLate in the afternoonWhat am I doing here at all?Ain’t no doubt about itI’m losing you

Somehow the wires have crossedCommunication’s lostCan’t even get you on the telephoneJust got to shout about itI’m losing you

Here in the valley of indecisionI don’t know what to doI feel you slipping awayI feel you slipping awayI’m losing you I’m losing you

You say you’re not getting enoughBut I remind you of all that bad stuffSo what the hell am I supposed to do?Just put a bandaid on it?And stop the bleeding nowStop the bleeding now

I know I hurt you thenBut hell that was way back whenAnd well, do you still have to carry that cross?Don’t want to hear about itI’m losing youI’m losing you

I’m Moving Onby Yoko Ono

Save your sweet talk for when you scoreKeep your Monday kisses

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for your glass ladyI want the truth and nothing moreI’m moving on, moving on you’re getting phony

You didn’t have to tell a white lieYou knew you scored me for lifeDon’t stick your fingers in my pieYou know I’ll see you through your jiveI want the truth and nothing moreI’m moving on, moving on we’re getting phony

When you were angry you had love in your eyesWhen you were sad you had dream in your voiceBut now you’re giving me your window smileI’m moving on, moving on it’s getting phony

Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)by John Lennon

Close your eyesHave no fearThe monster’s goneHe’s on the run and your daddy’s here

Beautiful beautiful beautifulBeautiful Boy

Before you go to sleepSay a little prayerEvery day in every wayIt’s getting better and better

Beautiful beautiful beautifulBeautiful Boy

Out on the ocean sailing awayI can hardly waitTo see you come of ageBut I guess we’ll bothJust have to be patientIt’s a long way to go

a hard row to hoeYes it’s a long way to goBut in the meantime

Before you cross the streetTake my hand Life is what happens to you While you’re busymaking other plans

Beautiful beautiful beautifulBeautiful BoyDarling darling darlingDarling Sean

Watching The Wheelsby John Lennon

People say I’m crazy doing what I’m doingWell they give me all kinds of warningsto save me from ruinWhen I say that I’m o.k. they look at mekind of strangeSurely you’re not happy now you nolonger play the game

People say I’m lazy dreaming my life awayWell they give me all kinds of advicedesigned to enlighten meWhen I tell them that I’m doing finewatching shadows on the wall Don’t you miss the big time boy you’re no longer on the ball?

I’m just sitting here watching the wheelsgo round and roundI really love to watch them rollNo longer riding on the merry-go-roundI just had to let it go

People asking questions lost in confusion Well I tell them there’s no problem only solutionsWell they shake their heads and look

at me as if I’ve lost my mindI tell them there’s no hurry...I’m just sitting here doing time

I’m just sitting here watching the wheelsgo round and roundI really love to watch them rollNo longer riding on the merry-go-roundI just had to let it go

Yes, I’m Your Angelby Yoko Ono

Yes, I’m your angelI’ll give you everythingIn my magic powerSo make a wishAnd I’ll let it come true for you tra, la la la

Yes, you’re my fairyYou give me everythingI ever wanted from lifeHave I made a wishAnd is that why I have youtra, la la la

We believe in pumpkins thatturn into princessesAnd frogs that turn into princesWe believe in moons that smile to usWhen we hurry home before the midnight strikes, tra, la la la

Yes, I’m so prettyYou’re so dizzyAnd we’re so happy every dayLet’s make a wish And let it come true for us

I’m in your pocketYou’re in my locketAnd we’re so lucky in every wayWe make a wish And let it come true for us

We believe in houses built in the sky

And love that lifts us highWe believe in the sun that looks overour shoulders And brings our shadows togethertra la la la

Yes,Our hearts are oneOur bodies, tooAnd its so good (um) everytimeWe make a wish And let it come true for you, too

Happy birthday, my loveI’m your angelI’ll give you everythingIn my magic powerSo make a wishAnd I’ll let it come true for you

Womanby John Lennon

Woman I can hardly expressMy mixed emotions at mythoughtlessnessAfter all I’m forever in your debtAnd woman I will try to expressMy inner feelings and thankfulnessFor showing me the meaning of success ooh well

Woman I know you understandThe little child inside the manPlease remember my life is in your handsAnd woman hold me close to your heartHowever distant don’t keep us apartAfter all it is written in the stars ooh well

Woman please let me explainI never mean(t) to cause you sorrow or painSo let me tell you again and again and again(I love you now and forever)

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Beautiful Boysby Yoko Ono

You’re a beautiful boyWith all your little toysYour eyes have seen the worldThough you’re only four years oldAnd your tears are streamingEven when you’re smilingPlease never be afraid to cry

You’re a beautiful boyWith all your little ploysYour mind has changed the worldAnd you’re now forty years oldYou got all you can carryAnd still feel somehow emptyDon’t ever be afraid to fly

All you beautiful boys Creating multiple playsYou like to fence in your worldAnd settle down when you’re oldYou can run from pole to poleAnd never scratch your soulDon’t be afraid to go to hell and backDon’t be afraid to go to hell and backDon’t be afraid to be afraid

Dear Yokoby John Lennon

Even after all these yearsI miss you when you’re not hereI wish you were here my dear YokoEven if it’s just a dayI miss you when you’re awayI wish you were here today dear Yoko

Even if it’s just one nightI miss you and it don’t feel rightI wish you were here tonight dear YokoEven if it’s just an hourI wilt just like a fading flowerAin’t nothing in the world like our lovedear Yoko

Oh YokoI’ll never ever let you go

Even when I’m miles at seaAnd nowhere is the place to beYour spirit’s watching over me dear YokoEven when I watch T.V.There’s a hole where you’re supposed to beThere’s nobody lying next to medear Yoko

Oh YokoI’ll never ever let you go

Even after all this timeI miss you like the sun don’t shineWithout you I’m a one track mind dear Yoko After all is really said and doneThe two of us are really one The goddess really smiled upon our love dear Yoko

Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Himby Yoko Ono

Every man has a woman who loves himIn rain or shine or life or deathIf he finds her in this lifetimeHe will know when he presses his ear to her breast

Why do I roam when I know you’re the oneWhy do I laugh when I feel like crying

Every woman has a man who loves herRise or fall of her life and in deathIf she finds him in this life timeShe will know when she looks into his eyes

Why do I roam when I know you’re the one

Why do I run when I feel like holdingyou

Every man has a woman who loves himIf he finds her in this life timeHe will know

Hard Times Are Overby Yoko Ono

It’s been very hardBut it’s getting easier nowHard times are over, over for awhileThe leaves are shining in the sunAnd I’m smiling insideYou and I watching each other on a street corner

Cars and buses, planes and people go byBut we don’t careWe want to knowWe want to know in each other’s eyesThat hard times are over, over for some time

Hard times are overHard times are overHard times are over, over for awhile

It’s been very roughBut it’s getting easier nowHard times are over, over for awhileThe streams are twinkling in the sunAnd I’m smiling insideYou and I walking together ’round thestreet corner

Hard times are overHard times are overHard times are over, over for awhile

Double Fantasy A Heart Play by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

STRIPPED DOWNProduced and Remixed by Yoko Onoand Jack Douglas. Remix Engineer: Jay Messina. Assistant Engineer: Justin Gerrish

Mixed at Avatar Studios, New York City.Re-Mix preparation at West End SoundNYC. A/D transfers done at SonyBattery NYC. Transfer Engineer: TimSturges. Mastered by George Marino atSterling Sound NYC. A&R: Rob Stevens

ORIGINAL ALBUMProduced by John Lennon, Yoko Onoand Jack Douglas. Engineer: Lee DeCarlo. Assistant Engineers: Jon Smith, James Ball, Julie Last.Guitarists: John Lennon, Earl Slick(Courtesy of Columbia Records), Hugh McCracken. Bass Guitar: Tony Levin. Keyboards: John Lennon,George Small. Drums: Andy Newmark.Percussion: Arthur Jenkins, Jr.Oberheim: Ed Walsh. Voice: JohnLennon, Yoko Ono. BackgroundSingers: Cas Mijac aka: MichelleSimpson, Cassandra Wooten, Cheryl Mason Jacks, Eric Troyer(Courtesy of Chrysalis Records), Benny Cummings Singers – KingsTemple Choir (Courtesy of New BirthRecords). Steel Drum: RobertGreenidge on ‘Beautiful Boy’. HammerDulcimer: Matthew Cunningham on‘Watching The Wheels’. EnglishConcertina: Randy Stein. Horn Players:Howard Johnson, Grant Hungerford,John Parran, Seldon Powell, George‘Young’ Opalisky, Roger Rosenberg,David Tofani, Ronald Tooley. MusicalAssociate: Tony Davilio – also HornArrangement on ‘Yes, I’m Your Angel’.

Production Assistants: FredericSeaman, Toshihiro Hamaya

Recorded and Remixed at Hit Factory,New York. Single Remix at RecordPlant, New York. Mastering at SterlingSound, New York. Mastered by George Marino

Art Direction: John Lennon, Yoko Ono.Artwork: Christopher Whorf/Art Hotel

All tracks c Lenono Music except 2, 4,6, 9, 11, 13, 14 c Ono Music

Remaster Project Production Producer: Yoko Ono.Remastered by George Marino atSterling Sound, 2010. Art direction byYoko Ono. New 2010 front & back cover drawings by Sean Lennon (based on photography by KishinShinoyama). Design by Peacock.Artwork Co-ordinator: Karla Merrifield.Photo research: Xilonen Oreshnick

‘Peace Brother’ drawing by John Lennon

Sleeve notes by Paul Du Noyer.Additional Photography: Bob Gruen, Nishi F. Saimaru, Kishin Shinoyama,David Spindel, Allan Tannenbaum

Image on page 9: John and Yokoleaving the Dakota, first day ofrecording - August 4, 1980: Paul Goresh

Image on page 10: John and Yoko on 44th Street, last day of recording - December 6, 1980: c Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com

Special thanks to: Starting with Jack Douglas, our originalCo-producer, I’d like to thank him andthe musicians who have been involved

in the making of the original DoubleFantasy. You were all brilliant andwonderful. I still love each one of you.

I would like to give a special thanks toDavid Geffen for giving John and I thefreedom to make the album in the waywe wanted to. This album would neverhave been made without your wisdomof allowing us to be us.

And thank you Sean, after many daysof hesitation, you finally did thedrawings for the front and back coversof this very special Stripped Down CDfor your dad and your mom. All sortsof memory of that time came back toyou, you said.. I know how hard it musthave been. This is a thank you fromme and your dad.

Finally, John. Thank you for havingdone the album with me, at the time of such importance for your career. I was a very lucky woman. We made a bit of a mess out of our lives, didn’twe? I know we never thought that.But we did. Though for you and me, it was grand all the way.

I love you! Yoko

Digital remaster. p 2010 The copyright in thissound recording is owned by Lenono Musicunder exclusive licence to Capitol Records,LLC. c 2010 Yoko Ono Lennon underexclusive licence to Capitol Records, LLC. c 2010 Capitol Records, LLC. This label copyinformation is the subject of copyrightprotection. All rights reserved.

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