01-03-2021, 22:24
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JOHN LENNON "walls and bridges" cd, 1974.
his forth proprer album...
written about his so-called 'lost weekend' where he ditched Yoko and had an affair with ne of her friends for a couple of years whilst hanging out in bars and shooting up chemicals with Nilsson for a couple of years....
songs are totally autobiographical in content which is what John excels at.
music a cross between the austere sparseness of "plastic ono band" and the commercial sounds of "imagine" albums and obviously no Yoko in the fray...
this is the solo Lennon i love immensely and other fans agreed, it reached #1 in the US and top 10 in his homeland, he even had a #1 single in the US with "whatever gets you through the night"...
and sales figures just under 3 million show he was on the way back without the political bullshit!
one instrumental on here and ten vocal tracks, loving just about everything...
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
perfect end to the album with his personal and professional insecurities front and centre:
Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine.
I've been across to the other side
I've shown you everything, I got nothing to hide
But still you ask me, do I love you?
What it is? What it is?
All I can tell you is it's all show biz
All I can tell you is it's all show biz.
Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you knife mine.
I've been across the water now so many times
I've seen the one-eyed witchdoctor leading the blind
But still you ask me, do I love you?
What you say? What you say?
Every time I put my finger on it, it slips away
Every time I put my finger on it, it slips away.
Well, I get up in the morning
And I'm looking in the mirror to see, oo-wee!.
Then I'm lying in the darkness
And I know I can't get to sleep, oo-wee!.
Nobody loves you when you're old and grey
Nobody needs you when you're upside down
Everybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.