Yoko Ono and Siouxsie wrap up Meltdown with Walking On Thin Ice.
On a giant screen, John Lennon and Yoko Ono walk through a chilly Central Park, as the ex-Beatle ruminates over their just-released collaborative album Double Fantasy.
"It's love and a lot of sweat and the life experience of two people,"
he surmises. Twelve days later, Lennon was killed and Double Fantasy
transformed from a poorly received comeback into a chart-topping,
hit-spawning, Grammy-winning last testament. Now, in the last gig of
Ono's Meltdown festival, the album is being played live for the first time – and as a backing band and the 18-strong Sense of Sound choir take to the stage, expectation is high.
Subtitled
A Heart Play, Double Fantasy is a curious mix of mature love songs,
whimsical nods to the past and Ono's defiantly aggressive paeans to the
new wave of rock that was rolling in when the album was recorded in
1980. But with the 80-year-old ensconced in the Royal Box, it's up to a
series of guests to bring the album to life, with decidely mixed
results.
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