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Great Collection
This CD has 19 solid tracks from his solo career that spanned from 1969 to 1980. There is no doubt John Lennon had a prolific career with many many successful beatles and solo hits. He produced alot of albums to 1975, then he took a break till 1980. This has a fine colection of songs from those years. My favorite tracks on the disc are (Just Like) Starting Over , Woman, Imagine,Mind Games,#9 Dream and Watching The Wheels. You will find this a rewarding purchase.
If you don't already have some of John Lennon's music in your collection. . . then this is the one to get.
John Lennon: hits and then some
8th, 1980. John Lennon, who had given this world so much with his words and music, was fatally shot on Dec. The first Lennon album to be released afterwards was 'The John Lennon Collection' in 1982, two years after. In 1989 it was re-issued on CD with two bonus tracks ( the last two on the CD); read on for my reivew of the re-issued CD.
The is one of the best Lennon compilations that I've heard. Give Peace a Chance is a great starter and the rest of the tracks that follow are all just as exellent; if I were to begin listing favorites, I would would proably end up giving you almost the entire track list. But the best tracks includ 'Instant Karma', 'Power To the People', Whatever Gets You Thru the Night', '#9 Dream, Stand By me' Starting Over, Losing You and the rarity Move Over Ms L. ( CD bonus track although not billed as such. Woman, Beautiful Boy, Dear Yoko, Imagine and Happy Xmas ( War is Over) are good too. This exellent album is sadly out of print and hard to find so alternatives such as The Lennon Legend or Shaved Fish ( if you don't mind a lack of Double Fantasy Material) are more accesible to the non hard-core fan. Also, to me any lack of Mil & Honey material doesn't bother me all to much; sure 'Nobody Told Me' or "Borrowed Time' or even Stepping Out would have been nice ( I actually think Grow Old With Me would have been a GREAT closer) but M&H was pothstumous album and a such I only consider it half-in the dsicography like I do all pothstumous rleases other than compilations or 'Anthologies' Anyhow, the prescence of 'Move Over Ms L. ' ( a rare Lennon B-Side, circa 1974-75) should apease the hardcore fan and if you're not 'hardcore' than it won't matter anyway ( if they do even bother tracking it down. So, great compilation album highly recomended for hardocre Lennon fans, newbies who don't mind trying to find rare albums and anyone interested in rarities ( Move Over. . . ) Such a sham that it's out of print! .
John Lennon: a very painful day, twenty five years ago!
Lennon was the active creator, the irreverent wing of the Beatles, the troublemaker, the inexhaustible peace fighter. That fatidic day signed the physical departure of Lennon but also meant the birth of a musical legend.
In our memory are still fresh the first signals of an unavoidable breakthrough in the early seventies. Since that moment the artistic profile of Lennon literally acquired a new dimension, his fertile imagination and unquestionable lyricism made of him one of the last exponents of the beat generation, in the tradition of Bob Dylan or Donovan. Lennon was an openhearted creator, he opened sliding doors and allowed to convey the concerns and existential anguish of all a non faith generation. And his themes were poems transformed in songs: Since the first bars of my first choice of his first age: Instant Karma, the barefaced cry of loneliness and bitterness expressed in Mother, or the universal song of Give Peace a chance, his personal poem dedicated to Yoko: Woman, or his undoubted masterpiece: Imagine, work that would become his immortal hymn that still engages the newcomer listeners.
This is a sad day, but also an opportunity to think about him, wherever he is. In the name of so many people who are reminding him through his records at this precise moment, or visiting his New York Department, Farewell and let' s enjoy because he followed and achieved his bliss.
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