John Lennon - Walls and Bridges (1974)

John Lennon - Walls and Bridges
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Artist...............: John Lennon
Album................: Walls and Bridges
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 1974
Ripper...............: NMR
Codec................: FhG
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:03:55) John Lennon - Going Down on Love
2. (00:03:27) John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
3. (00:04:11) John Lennon - Old Dirt Road
4. (00:03:10) John Lennon - What You Got
5. (00:04:37) John Lennon - Bless You
6. (00:04:37) John Lennon - Scared
7. (00:04:47) John Lennon - #9 Dream
8. (00:02:55) John Lennon - Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)
9. (00:04:37) John Lennon - Steel and Glass
10. (00:03:26) John Lennon - Beef Jerky
11. (00:05:09) John Lennon - Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)
12. (00:01:06) John Lennon - Ya Ya
Playing Time.........: 00:45:59
Total Size...........: 105.35 MB
NFO generated on.....: 7/25/2008 7:16:57 AM
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Walls and Bridges is an album by John Lennon, released in October 1974.
Recorded and issued during his estrangement from Yoko Ono, the album
caught Lennon in the middle of his infamous "lost weekend", a period that
lasted some eighteen months. It was the last album that Lennon released
without input from his wife. Apparently, it was originally intended to be an
acoustic, downbeat album, in the style of Bob Dylan, but continued influence
from friend Elton John inspired Lennon to add a decidedly more upbeat feel to
many of the tracks (although some of the original feel is still prevalent in some
songs).
In the fall of 1973, as Mind Games was being released, Lennon decamped
with his assistant-turned-lover May Pang to Los Angeles to record a cover
tunes album with Phil Spector. After the sessions fell into disarray with
alcohol, Spector disappeared for some time with the session tapes, requiring
Lennon to re-record the bulk of the album later in 1974, eventually titled Rock
'n' Roll upon its early 1975 release.
John Lennon spent most of the first months separated from Ono carousing
with Pang and various old friends, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Harry Nilsson
in particular. He contributed to Starr's Ringo and Goodnight Vienna albums
(the latter recorded with Elton John) and also produced Nilsson's album Pussy
Cats. But by the middle of 1974, Lennon began readying material for his own
album, and headed to New York City that June to rehearse and record with
his chosen musicians, including friends Jim Keltner on drums and Jesse Ed
Davis on guitar.