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-" 15. Good Morning, Good Morning, 1967. A romping satire of suburban life. Lennon sequenced the barnyard sounds at the end so that every beast was capable of consuming the animal previous.
16. I Am the Walrus, 1967 After Strawberry Fields and A Day in the Life, the third in John’s astonishing, drug-soaked studio constructions from 1966-67.
17. Happiness is a Warm Gun, 1968. Abandoning LSD while studying with the Maharishi in India, John returned to the studio newly energized. One startling result was this intriguing pile-up of disparate song fragments that ended with Lennon howling the title words, an NRA slogan that he’d read in a magazine.
18. Julia, 1968. A lilting seance between John and his mother, Julia, in which the singer announces he’s found a replacement for his parent’s lost love in an “ocean child” (the Japanese meaning of Yoko).
19. Don’t Let Me Down, 1969. A companion piece to If I Fell, written for Yoko.
20. Come Together, 1969. John gives notice he’s leaving the troubled band: “He say ‘I know you, you know me.’ One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.”
21. Instant Karma, 1970. Lennon’s most persuasive political song, probably because it was the least specific, and also because the man at the microphone, always a great shouter, lost himself in the dynamic of a convincing rock and roll song.
22. Mother, 1970. After Paul quit the Beatles in April 1970, John flew to L.A. with Yoko to scream his demons away in a four-month primal therapy session. The result was a candid, stripped bare solo album (Plastic Ono Band), which began with the lament, “Mother, you had me, but I never had you.”
23. I Found Out, 1970. “I found out something about my ma and my pa. They didn’t want me so they made me a star.”
24. Well, Well, Well, 1970. A vocal tour de force! John’s first solo album was recorded in 10 days, the time it took the Beatles to tune up back in Pepperland. Still, he laid down the most committed and varied vocal performances of his career, filtering and electronically fooling with his voice every track. Commented critic Robert Christgau: “John is such a media artist that even when he’s fervently shedding personas… he knows, perhaps instinctively, that he communicates most effectively through technological masks.”
25. Imagine, 1971. John gives inner peace a chance.
26. Jealous Guy, 1971. A ballad left off the White Album that John dressed up with a new lyric, turning it into a heartfelt act of contrition to Yoko.
27. Crippled Inside, 1971. Energetic, loose-limbed fun, despite the subject matter, and another indicator of Lennon’s improving spirits.
28. Oh Yoko, 1971. John’s best love song and a highlight of his most popular solo album, Imagine.
29. #9 Dream, 1974. Most of John’s ballads were reveries. Sometimes, he’d work for hours on a song, quit in frustration, and the song would tumble into his head when he relaxed. This, one of his best songs from the ’70s, came to him in his sleep.
30. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), 1980. John retired from music at age 35, becoming a house husband, learning how to bake bread and raise his child Sean. He made a comeback in 1980, sounding stable and content. “Close your eyes/Have no fear/The monster’s gone/He’s on the run and your daddy’s here,” he sang to Sean on the most affecting song on the album. The Nowhere Man had found himself. "
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