I found it depressing and felt that Lennon sounded like a spent force.

Everyone knew Yoko would be a trainwreck.

Suppose MDC had not happened. Would Lennon have had a future as a
songwriter? I think he would have if he had gotten away from Yoko and
stopped penning dreary odes to her.

Douglas confided to Goldman that Lennon was desperate to get out of his marriage. Douglas' girlfriend at that time recalled Lennon asking her
if she felt women might find him attractive. He also admitted to her
that he liked the Swedish actress Maud Adams. Coincidentally, Douglas' girlfriend knew Maud Adams and was working to arrange for Lennon to meet
her when MDC intervened.

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Geoffrey Stokes of the Village Voice summarized Double Fantasy with:
"Vampire woman sucks life out of man who enjoys every minute of his destruction.

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On 2024-12-09 13:00:50 +0000, Norbert said:

I found it depressing and felt that Lennon sounded like a spent force.

Everyone knew Yoko would be a trainwreck.

Suppose MDC had not happened. Would Lennon have had a future as a songwriter? I think he would have if he had gotten away from Yoko and stopped penning dreary odes to her.

I think all of John's songs are pretty good, they should have put them
all on one side and Yoko's songs on the other. Of course John would be
the first to object to that. Thankfully programmable CD players came
along not too long after 1980 (I also have a burned CD with only John's
songs on it).

Ironically I don't mind Yoko's songs on Milk & Honey at all, I actually
listen to those and the album straight through (her post-death material
is really poignant).

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I think "Watching the Wheels," with Tony Levin playing bass in a
McCartneyesque style, and "I'm Losing You" are okay.

It's tragic, IMO, that Lennon got involved with a narcissist like Yoko,
but that's what happens to people who fry their minds and lose their
standards.

When John had temporarily escaped Yoko and topped both the albums and
singles charts with Walls & Bridges and "Whatever Gets You Thru the
Night," Yoko deemed it "all just hype." She was furious, I sense, that
he was successful again -- and without her.

She derailed his plans to follow W&B up with an album he would have
called Between the Lines.

Additionally, when Lennon felt he had recovered his songwriting muse in Bermuda, his plan was to do a reggae-influenced album dealing with the
theme of "living on borrowed time." Again, Yoko derailed his plan and instructed him, according to her then-lover Sam Green, to write songs
about his love of her.

Once Yoko had gotten Lennon to agree to allow Yoko on his comeback
album, Yoko presented producer Jack Douglas with *boxes* of tapes of her
own songs from her time with David Spinozza. Douglas, bewildered, asked
Yoko: "How many songs are you going to HAVE on this album?"

"As many as I can," Yoko replied.

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