John Lennon He lived 40 years and right now it’s been 40 years since his last album. Milk and honey it was the product of pending recordings Double fantasythe last official album that the former Beatle left before being murdered.
The material was supervised by the ineffable Yoko Ono and His widow decided that this melancholy studio album would be released four years after his death.. It was released in the UK on 23 January 1984. Days later, January 27, in the United States.
It would have been Lennon’s last, but no: for example the recent appearance of occasionallyon November 2, 2023, madly attributed to “The Beatles,” sets the tone that when it comes to an icon, you never know tomorrow.
The cover of “Milk and honey” belongs to the same session that John Lennon and Yoko Ono did for “Double fantasy”.That song and I don’t want to face it they were destined Stop and smell the roses, LP released by Ringo Starr in 1981. The drummer received the demos after Lennon’s death, but was so depressed that he could barely listen to them. In other words, Nobody told me It became Lennon’s last major solo hit.
In 2001, Yoko Ono led a new mix of Milk and honey. For the reissue she included three additional songs and more than 22 minutes of a final interview with John, on the afternoon of December 8, 1980.
Without the four bullets in the middle, Milk and honey It would never be changed.
Source: Clarin
