Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy

By Ken Sharp

Book Overview

"They were all dialogue songs, meaning that we were writing it as if it were a play, and we were two characters in it. What we sing about in the record, and the songs, are real diaries of how we feel. We're not presenting ourselves as the perfect couple ... We have our problems, we have our doubts but we're trying. We want to stay together. When I was singing and working with her, I was visualizing all the people of my age group for the sixties being in their thirties or forties now, just like me, and having wives and children, and having gone through everything together. I'm singing to them. I'm saying, 'Here I am now, how are you? How's your relationship going? Did you get through it all? Wasn't the seventies a drag? Let's try to make the eighties good 'cause it's still up to us to make what we can of it.' It's not out of our control. I still believe in love, peace." Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439103003
• ISBN13: 9781439103005
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"