"Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy" by Ken Sharp (Gallery Books): This is an excellent look back at the sessions from the people involved. Sharp went to the sources, including Yoko Ono, and opened up a lot of information about the sessions that hadn't been revealed.
Some will criticize the fact that there's no take-by-take detail, but that really wasn't the book's purpose to begin with. It's an oral history and a very good one at that. Recommended.
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Loved this book. Lived in Brooklyn at the time and we all knew that Lennon was in Hit Factory from st least September onwards as I recall. Several guys in the neighborhood kinda hung outside the Dakota and a few actually saw him and I remember thinking his security was light anbd felot it would be an invasion of his privacy for me to go up there. I was eighteen and I listened to WNEW all the time and Lennon was giving interviews so I thought he might on so I switched the stereo on and the DJ was cryig and we all know why. The book brings back the joy of the man,back in the studio with what appears to be a great band making great music. I thnk several songs stand out from his last period (for me Watching the Wheels, Nobody Told Me, Borrowed Time are as brilliant) and he really helped highlight Yoko at her best- who can deny Walking On Thin Ice is a great record? The inevitable tidal wave of sadness has sat with me the last week after I finished the book, but the overall joy of the twentieth centuries geatest songwriter returning to the studio shines through- I highly recommend it.
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