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accounts, Spector, the creator of the famed “Wall of Sound,” was losing it — getting high, waving a pistol around the studio, delivering commands through a bullhorn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3SMXSIGICZBFBA5EDOWSJK3OGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822825},"content":"Lennon liked Douglas and brought him into the engineering booth. The younger man had studied at New York’s Institute of Audio Research; Ono hired him to engineer two of her solo albums. He rose swiftly from there, producing Cheap Trick, Patti Smith and Aerosmith. By then, he’d lost touch with the famous couple.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIAD45MV2JHX5OZA4HYMEEVWLA","additional_properties":{"_id":"AYYTZVUL5NA6JPMQTVRVEYKOZQ"},"content":"'Aerosmith had never heard of Run-DMC’: The path to the groundbreaking hit ‘Walk This Way'","type":"interstitial_link","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201130122730/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/walk-this-way/"},{"_id":"5TY2IPSIURCV7LOJA67E4TXQ6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822826},"content":"Now they were making plans for Lennon’s comeback. But they would have to take it slow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KOHWUGRCA4I6XHCKBXDCILCICQ","additional_properties":{"_do_not_inflate":true},"alignment":"left","referent":{"id":"KOHWUGRCA4I6XHCKBXDCILCICQ","provider":"","referent_properties":{"additional_properties":{"_id":"JWXA5T4DUBDYHMUJ53HAM7DTDY","comments":[]},"alignment":"left","caption":"Producer Jack Douglas, seen in Los Angeles at Swing House studios in 2010, took a chance on a stranger's call in spring 1980 that directed him to a seaplane. After a flight to Cold Spring Harbor on New York's Long Island, Ono presented him with an envelope labeled \"For Jack's ears only.\" It held Lennon's first demos since he had exited the public eye nearly six years earlier. 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That way, if he wanted to reference a Gene Vincent or Buddy Holly record, they’d understand the musical shorthand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QTWRFA4DRBBXFXMPJG4F6EIIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822828},"content":"He also reminded Douglas that, for now, that band needed to maintain this code of secrecy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNHT5O77ZNF7XE3YYWTXQM4BD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822829},"content":"“My manager got a phone call from Jack Douglas,” says guitarist Earl Slick, whose credits include David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and “Station to Station” albums. “He said he was doing a record with somebody and they wanted me to play on it but he couldn’t tell me who. We tried to get it out of him but he wasn’t going to talk.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAV3E57OIJA3FCI5DFH4WUFURM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822830},"content":"Ono, an adherent of numerology, asked for the birth dates and addresses for the players before approving their hiring. She also resisted rounding up Lennon’s old bandmates, including the hard-drinking pianist Nicky Hopkins, known as much for his partying as his playing with the Rolling Stones, Kinks and Who.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHZBD23HSNDQLPVIHSEIY74TUU","additional_properties":{"_id":"JQKCDMOUXFDJREFDKDRSP6NVJE"},"content":"","type":"raw_html"},{"_id":"OHLIZRFFGZAEDHZVEDXKPHKYZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822831},"content":"“Not Nicky,” she told Douglas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"27KHAECNN5EJHNYMAFD4PVZJGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822832},"content":"“Why?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5225CFOCQNBSZEYDZCEGKQN6YQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822833},"content":"“Because Nicky and John are trouble together,” Ono said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKZKKMBRFFCOPEXLWJS4FIJ7AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822834},"content":"In the end, Douglas brought in only two musicians who had played on Lennon’s records: guitarist Hugh McCracken and percussionist Arthur Jenkins Jr. Bassist Tony Levin played for Peter Gabriel and Alice Cooper. Drummer Andy Newmark was on tour with Roxy Music when he got the call.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5XDESTJKOBGANGRAXVAPBOBMHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822835},"content":"“The first thing I did, I went to soundcheck and told everybody in the band, ‘Hey, guess what, you guys. I just got called to work on John Lennon’s record,’ ” says Newmark. \"My secrecy went out the window.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2FGTJKI65HXHHRPV4L6GGF2BM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822836},"content":"Sidestepping familiar channels in gossipy New York, Ono hired a Boston publicist, Charles J. Cohen, and told him to prepare a news release. Cohen brought in another Bostonian, photographer Roger Farrington, to document the trip from their apartment at the Dakota to the studio on Aug. 7, the first day of recording. Both were told that nothing could be released until the artists were ready to go public.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLDDLCCT7NCKVHTUGC52ICK5UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822837},"content":"Rehearsals began that summer without Lennon. Douglas served as a vocal placeholder, singing as best he could. During nightly check-ins, he updated Lennon on their progress. There was also the matter of Ono’s material. She had given Douglas her demo reels the same day he came out to Cold Spring Harbor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWJ7ISQSABEJVOFIRHHD622LU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822838},"content":"Beatles fans were raised on “In My Life” and “Come Together,” not the guttural shrieks and moans of the avant-garde. But by 1980, there were hints of Ono’s influence on the radio, particularly from Lene Lovich and the B-52’s. And the songs Ono brought to “Double Fantasy” would be a departure from her less accessible, earlier work. 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And as soon as the musicians were gathered, he strapped on his futuristic-looking Sardonyx guitar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K27MAIXNOZD7FJ76HYAP47D6WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822840},"content":"“We kind of wondered whether he’d have it together or be a little insecure or sheepish,” says Newmark. “He said, ‘Let’s get down to it and break the ice.’ ”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7H3GRSPIJBHURDMTVVFRAPVWQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822841},"content":"It didn’t take long. During those sessions, Lennon sang his vocal takes along with the band, banking material that would remain after “Double Fantasy.” He sneaked into the band room for an occasional slice of pizza — “Don’t tell Mother,” he’d joke, alluding to the couple’s macrobiotic diet — and didn’t need much to restore his confidence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLHOZGSPJ5EW5N3UVMN4M3GZCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822842},"content":"A few days in, Douglas played back a vocal take of “Watching the Wheels” and Lennon responded by shouting out “Mother!”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LR3VIERTZATVHNK265OE7NTUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822843},"content":"“Yes, John,” Ono said from across the room.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OE53OBDYMBHDNJIYSUUX2EA5TM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822844},"content":"“Tell the world we have a record,” Lennon said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5IAL3KNJLFCGFEY2E6GKW2PNI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822845},"content":"Cohen’s news release, sent out Aug. 12, declared that Lennon and Ono were working on a new album and “a source close to the recording studio said … it is the best of Lennon to date.” Farrington’s photo offered the public the first glimpse of Lennon in a recording studio in years. He was thin and tan and wearing a snazzy, Western shirt. Ono had her dark hair pulled back and under a cap. They wore sunglasses, staring at his Nikon without a hint of a smile.","type":"text"},{"_id":"465NXCO5E5E6XDFAA5YZUWSWCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822846},"content":"Inside, Farrington captured Lennon strapping on his guitar, raising his arms in the air like a lion tamer, as if to urge sound out the instrument. Ono came over and, without anger but all business, instructed Farrington to follow her. “Don’t photograph just John,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7K3LMLDFGFG7XPDLBXLXJ3523E","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822847},"content":"He captured her talking on the phone and sitting in a director’s chair behind Lennon, cigarette raised in her right hand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPIM23RAHII6XLKTJQP5USMQPU","additional_properties":{"_do_not_inflate":true},"referent":{"id":"BPIM23RAHII6XLKTJQP5USMQPU","provider":"","referent_properties":{"additional_properties":{"_id":"L3QUWOQASJGQZB52JEI4CD3LRQ","comments":[]},"caption":"Lennon unpacks his briefcase and scatters packs of Kools on the Hit Factory mixing board. He also would place a photo of his young son Sean there. 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First there was his mother, Julia, who taught him how to play the ukulele and had a wry sense of humor but couldn’t manage parenting him as a child and entrusted his care to her sister Mimi. Then there were the women he cheated on, including his first wife, Cynthia — some of whom, he admitted in the 1980 interview with Sheff, he occasionally hit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LUYGFXRDREOFG777NKZPF6NLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822850},"content":"The dynamic with Ono did not go unnoticed. He seemed intent on using their relationship as a vehicle to reshape the traditional gender roles he had grown up with. When it came to “Double Fantasy,” she was an equal partner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JDPVA25KZNBLJJREQJ6C7NQBUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822851},"content":"Which is why the “heart-play,” as they called it, was both a concept and a reintroduction. Lennon and Ono’s relationship had always been shared, played out for the public.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IXNA2DTO2JFITLJTXXZ5KUSOLU","additional_properties":{"_id":"W7M4EBC2SJDZLDKLHWSJWVSY7M"},"content":"A dozen albums for a penny? I’ve still got mine, and plenty of time to listen.","type":"interstitial_link","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201130122730/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-dozen-albums-for-a-penny-ive-still-got-mine-and-plenty-of-time-to-listen/2020/07/01/59a4bb8e-b714-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html"},{"_id":"Q7ALBPPDZZBQ7POE3ICEFCRTAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822852},"content":"In 1970, when the Beatles came apart, Lennon railed in Rolling Stone that they had “despised” Ono from the start and described Paul, George and Ringo as “the most bigheaded, uptight people on earth.” He also had little patience for fans who nostalgically longed for the mop tops of “She Loves You.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOHJOIBBTNGGFEO4YWRICBCPJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822853},"content":"In “God,” released on Lennon’s solo debut in 1970, he declared that “the dream is over” and detached himself from, among other things, magic, Buddha, Kennedy, Elvis, Jesus, Bob Dylan and the Beatles. “I just believe in me,” he sang. “Yoko and me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSDQQDRCAII6XHCKBXDCILCICQ","additional_properties":{"_do_not_inflate":true},"referent":{"id":"YSDQQDRCAII6XHCKBXDCILCICQ","provider":"","referent_properties":{"additional_properties":{"_id":"Q4WXBJCEPBCIJEFCGTGOZWNE34","comments":[]},"caption":"Lennon and Ono receive reporters at their bedside in the Presidential Suite of the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam during their infamous seven-day Bed-in for Peace on March 15, 1969. 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When Lennon went to Los Angeles to record, Ono assigned May Pang, a 22-year-old assistant, to not only watch over him, but also to be his romantic companion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLFHZ2XPXBBRPCKSZM3X6N6JWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822856},"content":"This would be “the Lost Weekend that lasted eighteen months,” Lennon would say later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3VZTREOERENZHPBZG7H6QOU2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822857},"content":"In L.A., Lennon’s drinking worsened. He blacked out and smashed up the house he was staying in. He got kicked out of the audience at a Smothers Brothers show, earning notice in the papers. His attempt to make music fizzled when he hired famed producer Phil Spector, whose own erratic behavior included shooting off a gun in the studio and making off with the recordings they had made.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMYMKLVHERDC7A2TTTA3YLTGFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822858},"content":"Finally, Lennon returned to New York with Pang and agreed to make a brief appearance with Elton John at a Madison Square Garden concert on Nov. 28, 1974. Tony King, an Apple Records executive who was working with Lennon, heard from Ono before the show. She wanted a ticket and to go backstage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SN2HHZNGYZA7JD4FYM7AWVRDTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822859},"content":"King didn’t know what to expect. But as soon as he met Ono, he knew the couple would be reunited.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CW244PY235G4JCWSIXIBIBPAVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822860},"content":"“Sophisticated, very educated, very cerebral and spiritual and also quite tough,” King said of Ono. “I was also expecting this rather not-very-nice woman. And instead I found her completely charming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DTZTOPAFNFWTJNZLDLW2HQ464","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822861},"content":"“I think he had a lot of fun with May, but she wasn’t the woman of his dreams. Yoko was the woman of his dreams.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3MFHLBCAII6XHCKBXDCILCICQ","additional_properties":{"_do_not_inflate":true},"referent":{"id":"W3MFHLBCAII6XHCKBXDCILCICQ","provider":"","referent_properties":{"additional_properties":{"_id":"DQSLPVJ5XVGLNK5NNTQYCXAVVU","comments":[]},"caption":"Ono and Lennon give an interview at a news conference in 1969. 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There were only occasional sightings of him: at a Merce Cunningham Dance Company performance with Ono; the circus with Sean; in a tux at Jimmy Carter’s inaugural.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2O5HPROS3JFK7LINCCNPQVTKOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822864},"content":"There was even the night, in 1976, that Lennon and McCartney were at the Dakota — the two had tried to rekindle their friendship — watching “Saturday Night Live” when producer Lorne Michaels, as a gag, offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite. They contemplated hopping in a cab to show up at the studio before deciding they were too tired.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSGQITXSF5HEPODMJMNEYDNJ54","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822865},"content":"“What have you been doing?” Sheff asked Lennon in the Playboy interview.","type":"text"},{"_id":"72KRGYLBZJE33IKXD66QP5LFHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822866},"content":"“I’ve been making bread,” Lennon said. “Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5KJMGPRKRAV3G5EKFJNQATB44","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822867},"content":"The truth is, Lennon did not send out a news release announcing his semiretirement. It just sort of happened.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7EHKAHFBQJHLRIECOJXAHF6IIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822868},"content":"Jimmy Iovine found out when he stopped by the Dakota to schedule the sessions for Lennon’s follow-up to 1974’s “Walls and Bridges.” In the next few years, Iovine would become famous for working with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Tom Petty, and would earn millions for co-founding the Beats by Dr. Dre brand. But he had started working with Lennon in the early ’70s as a 19-year-old kid at the Record Plant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XMVZ2TCBVETTHDK2SHJCMDLGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822869},"content":"Before heading to the Dakota, Iovine had his sister pick out a teething ring at Tiffany’s, as a gift to baby Sean. When he got to the Dakota, Ono told him it was time for her husband to take a break.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZSANBTY3FHRJD3ATZENNRPV4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822870},"content":"“She said, ‘I’ve done some research and John needs to retire for five years and I’m going to cancel the album,’ ” Iovine recalls. “I said, ‘Okay.’ She says, ‘When’s your birthday?’ I told them my birthday. She goes, ‘You know, you may need to take some time off, as well.’","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITBDYHSPEJDDPNMJT4X3LFVLRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822871},"content":"Iovine laughed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TA3NKVBKNBA3IYWTOLBJLMUOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822872},"content":"“I said, ‘Yoko, I make four dollars an hour. 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He trusted them as artists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TFSGPGJLPFEKPBVDKWBQYSENQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822877},"content":"He also didn’t get involved in how the record would be sequenced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YA5VVYBZHZA45HLOD4SMOFPQQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822878},"content":"One day, in the studio, Douglas, Lennon and Ono took a vote. The men agreed that the album should feature one side of Lennon and one side of Ono, but Ono disagreed. She said the tracks had to alternate; ultimately the producer and her husband acquiesced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNSBT32KA5FWBJTT5ZBR4BMA2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822879},"content":"“I think he felt that if everything of his was on one side and everything of hers was on the other, nobody would listen to the other side,” says Geffen. “And that’s not what he wanted.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"U62OIEIBY5BPREW5EOFVPTEYIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822880},"content":"Ono and Lennon would create their dialogue by pairing songs by theme: Love (“Dear Yoko,” “I’m Your Angel”), conflict (“I’m Losing You,” “I’m Moving On”), and facing adulthood (“Hard Times Are Over,” “Watching the Wheels”). They each delivered a song centered around their soon-to-be-5-year-old boy, Sean (“Beautiful Boys,” “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”).","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LFRFJAREVFXBE3WR5SDC5FNPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822881},"content":"They wanted “Double Fantasy” to sell — they would tape the weekly Billboard chart to their bedroom door — but Lennon also wanted to deliver a message. The album had to update his sound and his image.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHSNQQ2H3JAGHANK4DFXVQSF4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822882},"content":"“This isn’t an album we want to sell to kids,” he told Douglas. “I’m going to be 40. This is an album we’re going to sell to the people who have been through the wringer of the ’60s and the ’70s. It’s about a guy who’s married, whose life has changed. He’s cleaned up his act. 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He called Douglas to work on an additional song of Ono’s that he felt could be a hit, “Walking on Thin Ice.” The song would feature a searing guitar solo from Lennon, playing his 1958 black Rickenbacker 325 guitar. He hadn’t picked it up since a Beatles session in the mid-60s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NL75PNAQRJG35AFDAEIE2WOFNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822887},"content":"On Dec. 8, Lennon and Douglas finished mixing the song and agreed to meet, as usual, for breakfast the next day before getting back to work. There were big plans. They wanted to get the band back together to finish the tracks left over from “Double Fantasy.” There was talk of a tour. 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In 1981, “Walking on Thin Ice” would be Ono’s biggest hit, cracking the Top 40.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGIYTHEWMJCOZL37ZGG45ERQMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1604596822890},"content":"Ono struggled in the aftermath. There were death threats and there was Sean, a young boy without a father. There was also a slew of thefts, with one longtime assistant arrested for taking photographs, letters and Lennon’s diaries. That assistant, Frederick Seaman, would write a scathing book accusing Ono of drug use and brainwashing Lennon. 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