Saturday 18 December 2010

RETURN TO FANTASY LAND:DOUBLE FANTASY (STRIPPED DOWN)

THE ALBUM CLUB: Thirty years to the day after Lennon’s death, Daragh Downes rounds up four guests to discuss John and Yoko’s Double Fantasy (Stripped Down) , a radical new remix commissioned by Ono

THEY CALL it the retrospective illusion. You watch a smiling JFK arriving at Dallas Love Field airport and your mind’s eye fast-forwards to the obscenities about to be captured on Abraham Zapruder’s Bell Howell camera.

It’s no different with John and Yoko’s Double Fantasy . How can you hear him singing a lullaby to Sean, or her declaring that hard times are over, without your heart breaking at the deed of horror that lies just around the corner?

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