Walls And Bridges <\/i>was created and recorded during John Lennon\u2019s separation from Yoko Ono, a period that Lennon later termed his \u201cLost Weekend.\u201d While they later got back together in 1975, for one glorious album, there was no Yoko around. <\/p>\n
John Lennon\/Plastic Ono Band <\/i>and Imagine<\/i> remain John Lennon\u2019s strongest albums with Walls And Bridges <\/i>being a cut below. While many of the lyrics express his longing for the temporarily departed Ono, the music was some of the best pop he would produce during his solo career.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing Down On Love\u201d is a personal song that shows a longing for his missing partner. It is cloaked in accessible music and sets the tone for what will follow. I\u2019m sure that I\u2019m in company with many other people who have never understood the Yoko Ono infatuation. Here he has some freedom and a new relationship with former assistant May Pang, yet a number of the songs show Lennon pining for lost love.<\/p>\n
Lennon follows this personal first track with one his most accessible songs and the only single release to top the American charts during his lifetime. \u201cWhatever Gets You Thru The Night\u201d is a joyous romp and about as poppish as he would ever get. Interestingly Lennon did not particularly like the song and thought it a poor choice for a single release. He bet Elton John that if the song was successful he would join him on stage at one of Elton\u2019s live shows. Lennon kept his word and appeared at the concert on \u201c Following its auspicious beginning, the album has some highs and lows. \u201cSacred\u201d may be John Lennon\u2019s best vocal on this release. \u201c#9 Dream\u201d is a nice mid-tempo song with a wonderful structure and continued Lennon\u2019s fascination with that number. On the downside, \u201cBeef Jerky\u201d is the only instrumental that Lennon issued on a studio album and is basically filler. \u201cNobody Loves You (When You\u2019re Down and Out)\u201d pales next to the version contained on his Anthology <\/i>album. Meanwhile, \u201cYa-Ya\u201d is one of the worst tracks on any Lennon release. Such songs as \u201cWhat You Got,\u201d \u201cBless You,\u201d and \u201cSteel and Glass\u201d are not terrible, but neither are they outstanding and they just sort of disappear into his catalogue. <\/p>\n Walls And Bridges <\/i>contains some gems that can be mined. Overall, it remains a pleasurable listening experience, and while not the best album of Lennon\u2019s career, it certainly can be considered above average. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":29663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7187],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-41262","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-john-lennon","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41262"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}