John Lennon - Walls & Bridges

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Brian flies solo this week for a full episode, deciding to tackle one of John Lennon's less-regarded, but no less amazing albums; 1974's Walls & Bridges. Recorded during Lennon's legendary "Lost Weekend," W&B finds its creator at a personal and professional crossroads. And by the time we get to the end, Lennon has logged two Top 10 hits (including his first #1) and come to the realization that - while going out and having fun every night might be great for a little while - there's truly no place like home. Success achieved.

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0:00.0	Whatever get you through the night
0:16.0	It's all right
0:20.0	It's all right If it's all right.
0:24.1	It's your money, all you like.
0:28.2	It's all right, it's all right.
0:32.0	Don't need a salt to drop your flowers.
0:36.3	Hello and welcome to the Great Albums podcast.
0:37.6	My name is Brian.
0:39.3	I will be your host today.
0:46.3	Our proper host, Bill, is still in India with his wife, Maureen, and they'll be getting back in a couple weeks.
0:48.7	So don't, don't you, you guys just sit tight.
0:49.1	It's all right.
0:49.9	I got you.
0:59.1	What you just heard was a song called Whatever Gets You Through the Night by John Lennon off of 1974's Walls and Bridges.
1:13.6	This is my personal favorite John Lennon album, and so I figure, since we haven't done a John Lennon record yet, that this one might be appropriate because it's not quite as well known as say plastic ono band or double fantasy or imagine so you know i can kind of maybe take some liberty in bill's
1:20.2	absence and do a bit more of a kind of a boutique item though the album i do think is great and i
1:26.6	in my own opinion think it's it's John Lennon's
1:28.9	best and most varied and most fun album, and I do think it is legitimately great, and I will tell
1:36.4	you why over the course of this episode, if you're just tuning in for the first time, what we do
1:41.2	here on the great albums podcast is we take a different album of music and we
1:46.0	talk about what makes it great. We go through the list, track by track, and just kind of talk about
1:52.2	a little bit of the music, a little bit of the production, perhaps some of the personnel that
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