Re: Your Honest First Reaction to Double Fantasy

I think "Watching the Wheels," with Tony Levin playing bass in a
McCartneyesque style, and "I'm Losing You" are okay.
It's tragic, IMO, that Lennon got involved with a narcissist like Yoko,
but that's what happens to people who fry their minds and lose their
standards.
When John had temporarily escaped Yoko and topped both the albums and
singles charts with Walls & Bridges and "Whatever Gets You Thru the
Night," Yoko deemed it "all just hype."  She was furious, I sense, that
he was successful again -- and without her.
She derailed his plans to follow W&B up with an album he would have
called Between the Lines.
Additionally, when Lennon felt he had recovered his songwriting muse in
Bermuda, his plan was to do a reggae-influenced album dealing with the
theme of "living on borrowed time."  Again, Yoko derailed his plan and
instructed him, according to her then-lover Sam Green, to write songs
about his love of her.
Once Yoko had gotten Lennon to agree to allow Yoko on his comeback
album, Yoko presented producer Jack Douglas with *boxes* of tapes of her
own songs from her time with David Spinozza.  Douglas, bewildered, asked
Yoko:  "How many songs are you going to HAVE on this album?"
"As many as I can," Yoko replied.