John Lennon & Yoko Ono Double Fantasy SHM-CD

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In the five years since 1975, John Lennon's life had seen some unaccustomed tranquillity. For the first time since the Beatles' rapid ascent, he was free of all recording obligations. His longstanding struggles with US immigration were successfully concluded. Reunited with Yoko Ono, the couple were at last blessed with the child they had longed for.

Since Sean's birth, John had devoted himself to fatherhood and domesticity, two pursuits he had never conspicuously shone at. He made occasional home recordings, but the music industry must learn to get along without him. He took some trips abroad, including Hong Kong and Egypt, but in the guise of private citizen, not rock star. Yoko, also, had put her artistic career on hold: John had asked her to supervise their business affairs. Slowly, though, their restless creativity reawakened.

From its inception, Double Fantasy was a John and Yoko collaboration, just as their early avant-garde albums had been. And in its "Heart Play" of alternating viewpoints, it formalized a pattern they'd instinctively adopted on Sometime in New York City.

Double Fantasy was a brave album on John's part, and not only for his loyalty to Yoko. Here was a man whose image was frozen in rock 'n' roll, with all its connotations of youth, rebellion and extremity. Yet his goal this time was to address middle age, and the generation who had grown up with him, and to consider questions — of parenthood, of marriage, of mature relations between the sexes — that pop music scarcely touches.

The last John Lennon recording to be issued in his lifetime, Double Fantasy includes "(Just Like) Starting Over," " Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)," "Watching the Wheels" and "Woman."

Features the 2010 remaster and includes the 2010-edition booklet, Inner bag and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.