Great Album GREAT MAN!!!

I had to write this review after reading the only review on this album.This album (Lennon Tracks NOT YOKO!)is a fantastic album by a man at forty years old looking to the future and writting about it.Songs like Starting Over and Watching The Wheels to Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)shows a man reflecting on life and how good it is.To say this album is mediocre is down right ignorant.This album is a great addition to your lennon collection and a must have!!!!!!

John Lennon's short and sweet comeback.

When John Lennon's second son Sean Taro Ono Lennon was born on John 35th birthday on October 9,1975,John,at least temporarily,retired from making music to raise Sean and spend time with Sean's mother Yoko Ono. Sean was 4,nearly 5 years old when John returned to the studio to record this album,which would be his last,while alive. This album was a joint project for John and Yoko(Yoko wrote and recorded some tracks by herself). November 1980 saw the release of this album with its first Top 20 single JUST LIKE STARTING OVER,which later appeared on the posthumously released THE JOHN LENNON COLLECTION. KISS KISS KISS is one of Yoko's compositions. Also that appeared on TJLC are another Top 20 hit WOMAN,another Top 20 hit WATCHING THE WHEELS,I'M LOSING YOU,BEAUTIFUL BOY(DARLING BOY),an ode to Sean and DEAR YOKO. This album is one of the first released on the newly christened Geffen label,a subsidiary of Warner Bros. All the other songs are good. This album even won an Album of the Year Grammy(1981) in early 1982. A few weeks after the release of this album,40-year-old John Lennon was shot and killed by an insane fan who hours earlier requested and received an autograph from the entertainer. I dedicate this album to the memory of John(October 9,1940-December 8,1980).

Mediocre end for the greatest songwriter of all time

By 1980 John Lennon's days of writing genius songs of protest and hallucinations with the Beatles were long gone and quite frankly, this album shows lennon up resting on his laurels with half assed songs. Not one song matches up to the standard of Beatles materiel or even his early solo materiel.
I have nothing against Yoko Ono but the simple fact is, ever since they came together, John seemed to lose interested in writing good music. I'd prefer if she kept away from the music side of things because her presence is just plain annoying and pointless. Lennon, being the music genius that he is/was does show flashes of his songwriting brilliance and simplicity on this record. This album is full of simple but aimless love songs that he had been singing since his solo career began and there is nothing new or significant here. This record, released only 3 weeks before his tragic death, shows him as an artist unfortunatly gone past his creative peak and downright uninspired. Unless you're a lennon diehard, you'd be better to give this album a miss because it wont remain in your stereo for very long.