John Lennon John Lennon was the Beatles' most committed rock & roller, their social conscience, and their slyest verbal wit. After the group's breakup, he and his second wife, Yoko Ono, carried on intertwined solo careers. Ono's early albums presaged the elastic, screechy vocal style of late-'70s new wavers like the B-52's and Lene Lovich. L7 and Babes in Toyland have also been influenced by and benefited from Ono's attitudinal, emotionally trailblazing work. Lennon strove to break taboos and to be ruthlessly, publicly honest. When he was murdered on December 8, 1980, he and Ono seemed on the verge of a new, more optimistic phase.
Two
posthumous albums that have been preserved well - that might easily
have fallen by the wayside (as Heart Play has) - are Milk and Honey and
Menlove Avenue, Yoko’s attempts to make ‘new’ Lennon albums in the early
and mid-eighties based on reels of outtakes and works-in-progress. The
former still makes a nice companion piece to Double Fantasy (and
includes an exclusive video download of Nobody Told Me) but the latter
is more of a worry: no extra tracks and surprisingly low-volume previews
which doesn’t bode well for the quality of the full-length downloads
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