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October 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 490

John Lennon, Watching The Wheels [Single] (1981) The best solo song by John Lennon – well, up there anyway, my personal favourite. A song I’ve always loved, one I link to trying to process his death at a very young age, at knowing that it meant something, one I link to understanding him as something […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1981, Double Fantasy, Double Single, EP, John, John Lennon, Lennon, LP, Mr. Holland's Opus, Ono, Single, Split Single, The Vinyl Countdown # 490, Vinyl, Watching The Wheels, Yes I'm Your Angel, Yoko, Yoko Ono ·

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March 18, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1574

John Lennon/Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy (1980) I gave away my dad’s copy of this album – so had to buy another copy some years down the track. But this album was a staple growing up. The rule was that you skipped the tracks featuring Yoko Ono (far easier once the CD player came along). And […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), Double Fantasy, Hard Times Are Over, I'm Losing You, John Lennon, LP, Mark David Chapman, Vinyl, Watching The Wheels, Woman, Yoko Ono ·

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August 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1882

John Lennon, The John Lennon Collection (1982) The first posthumous John Lennon collection, this is the compilation that I turn to rather than his albums. John – out of The Beatles – doesn’t really do it for me. People mock Macca but he delivers. John didn’t. Okay, so Plastic Ono Band is a masterpiece. And […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged John Lennon, Macca, Paul McCartney, Plastic Ono Band, Poem, The Beatles, The John Lennon Collection, Vinyl, Watching The Wheels ·

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