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John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy (Geffen)

Gene Sculatti, Ampersand, February 1981

I'M ONE of those people who gave John Lennon a lot of credit for his self-imposed 5-year exile from recording. After all, why make music just because millions of people think you should? On the other hand, John Lennon makes music. That's what he does, like a baker makes bread or a bricklayer builds walls. And vacations always have a way of ending. When they do, the worker goes back to work.

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