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University Daily Kansan, January 27, 1981
Lennon's death contributes to album's sales
By DAN TORCHIA Staff Writer
"Double Fantasy," John Lennon and Yoko One, Fegz Records.
Even though this album came out a couple of months ago, just before Lennon's death Dec. 8, now is a good time to review it. The sympathy ball the reviews call that came out just after his death.
It's the "everyone who dies is a great guy" syndrome. In the rush to eulogize Lennon, most critics forget that his greatest work was in the 1980s with the Beatles, and that his subsequent work was usually marred by his political exhorting or self-doubt about his talent.
"Double Fantasy," presumably Lennon's last album of new material, is not the "major statement" that Rolling Stone called it, but it is a good step to what looked to be a renewed recording career. It is an intensely personal album, showing how Lennon changed his son Sean when Yoichi one took care of business affairs. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
The music shows Lemon as a version of Paul McCartney. This is an interesting transformation, since Lemon roundly condemned McCartney in the early 1970s for his domestic yearnings. But when you come down to it, "Double Fantasy," with its songs of marriage and domestic bliss, is Lennons own "Silly Love Songs."
AND AS IN the McCarthy song, the natural reply is another line from the song, "What's wrong with that?" Nothing. Though Lennon knew that, he felt it was good, it is good to hear him sounding so optimistic.
Subtitled "A Heart Play," and "双庆 Fantasy" has seven songs by Lennon and by Ona. As might be expected, Lennon's songs carry the album, while One's are less accessible and more complex. Among the most part Lennon's songs are melodic and gentle, with only three songs being unteno.
It is the slower songs that work the best. "Beautiful Boy," which closes Side One, is a track from *Rock of Ages* that sounds like
"Close your eyes—have no fear," Lennon coos.
"Themonster's gone! He's on the run and you
daddy's here," Lennon's best lines of the album are in the song, describing the day-to-day dealings of many of us: "Life is what happens to you.While you're busy/Making other plans."
"WOMAN!" the album's second and is one of the pretty bests songs Lennon has written. Foug of guitarists and a rich sound mix, it is a song to Yoko, who taught him "the meaning of suc-
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Listen to this song for the best example of Lennon's craftsmanship on the album. At the
end, Lennon sings, "I love you now and forever." That's the first time he sings those words in this song. Before, when the same spot comes up at Lennon's home, he only sings "ohh well," siring the same notes.
Finally, at the end, after he sings, "So let me tell you again and again and again," he finally gets to the words. He sings them again and again until the end, when she comes out. It is exactly the right way to end the song.
He didn't need to sing "I love you now and forever" before the end of the song. But as he
THE ALBUM'S best song is "Watching the Wheels." Using a blues-folk melody, Lennon sings about the last five years and what he with his time I am just sitting here watching the world go by. Watch me to watch you roll no longer riding on the merry-go-round/I just had to let it go."
develops the lyric line and describes his love,
then the need becomes apparent.
One's songs are not as good as Lennon's. She does not have the melodic instincts that Lennon had. For the most part her songs are simple, using just a few chords. She has the kinetic energy that characterizes New Wave groups like the R-52's.
"I'm Moving On" segues from Lennon's "I'm Losing You". Basically a slightly altered version of Lennon's song, it shows the flip side of a failing relationship.
In the first song Lennon songs, "What the hell am I supposed to do?" One answers back, "I'm moving on, it's getting phony." This is where the "Double Fantasy" concent bests and the.
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listener can get a glimpse into the Lennon's marriage problem, prompt him are based on the probable problem from art.
ONO'S BEST song by far is "Hard Times are Over." The chord progression is more extended than in her other songs, and the arrangement is full of background voices and brass. "Hard times are over, or for awhile," she sings. Looking back, the songs are tragically ironic.
"Double Fantasy" is an important album only because it is Lennon's last. This is not a triumphant capstone to Lennon's historic career, because it was not meant to be that way.
Lennon was getting his feet wet again, and it shows on the album. But it also indicates that more triumphs would have followed. This is his last album. And it is the promise on "Double Fantasy" that makes Lennon's death all the more tragic.
Dan Torchia, staff writer for the Kansan, has been a guitarist for 13 years. He has played with the KU Jazz Ensemble, the KU Men's Basketball Band and Hornzor, a Lawrence-based band.
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MbEee said it was financial pressures and not personality conflicts that were causing prob-lem.
Lynch and McBee, scheduled to perform at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Opera House, has been together for only five months. The group is being compared among the best blues bands in the Midwest.
Financial pressures, however, have caused problems for the band, according to Lee McBeeharp player. So, despite good audience reception, the band is breaking up.
McBee organized the band with Lynch to back up a duo the two had formed last year. He said traveling, equipment and other costs quadrupled when Doores and Wyman, both whom he called
Known for its uptempo, electric blues in the tradition of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, they also play some "laid-back blues," according to Curtis Irinhardt. Ooera House manager.
The band consists of McFlees, 29; Bill Lynch, 30;
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"It's just not working out," McBee said. "The band hasn't done what we wanted it to."
excellent musicians joined the band. But the band's incompos did not even double, McBee said.
"You start asking yourself if it's really worth
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McBee also said the band did not develop as planned. He said the musicians wanted to form a blues-oriented, high-energy dance band, but in the end it lacked focus and versatility.
In the duo with Lynch, he said, there was more opportunity for "cowboy music," jazz ballads and swing.
Reinhardt credited the popular resurgence of blues music in the last few years with bringing bands such as Lynch and McBee to the attention of large audiences.
"Blues is good stuff, but I like to play pretty music too," McBee said.
Lynch and McBee will continue to perform as a duo. McBee said, after the group disbands.
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