Peace and Love!
John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life by Kenneth Womack
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Audible Audio-book - 10 hours 32 minutes
Narrator Paul Woodson
Sometimes it takes the steam out of a book or story when you already know how it ends. With this book, I would say Ken Womack did an excellent job of making what was the last year of Lennon's life interesting and a compelling story. It could be broken down into different parts. Early on we see John starting to feel the creative juices that have been quiet for some time awaken. Partly inspired by his old partner Paul McCartney's new song "Coming Up" (Paul's career was also changing gears too.) coupled with a sailing trip. The latter half of the book is primarily John & Yoko making what would be his final album Double Fantasy(and posthumously released Milk and Honey). This is where John comes alive and is the strongest, making music again. He becomes very focused and is a musician on a mission to make his long-awaited comeback album. It's the first time I've read of an in depth look into making his final album. I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of John Lennon and The Beatles and want learn more of his final days.
The album was released initially only in the United Kingdom on the Parlophone. They had already released "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me" with enormous success and decided to put out an album. Miraculously they recorded 10 songs in one day(4 had already been recorded for the previously mentioned singles).
