Milk and Honey (Album)
Occupation
- John Lennon - guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Yoko Ono - Vocals
- John Tropea - Guitar
- Earl Slick - guitar
- Elliott Randall - Guitar
- Steve Love - Guitar
- Hugh McCracken - guitar
- Tony Levin - Bass
- Neil Jason - Bass
- Wayne Pedziwiatr - Bass
- Pete Cannarozzi - Synthesizer
- George Small - Keyboard
- Ed Walsh - Keyboard
- Howard Johnson - French Horn
- Andy Newmark - drums
- Paul Griffin - drums
- Jimmy Maelen - percussion
- Arthur Jenkins - percussion
- Gordon Grody - backing vocals
- Billy Alessi - backing vocals
- Peter Thom - backing vocals
- Kurt Yahjian - backing vocals
Milk and Honey is an album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It is the first posthumously released album after Lennon's death, at which the couple had worked before the murder of the ex-Beatle.
- 5.1 Nobody Told Me
- 5.2 Borrowed Time
- 5.3 I'm Stepping Out
- 5.4 Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
Genesis
Milk and Honey is the follow-up project to Double Fantasy, by John Lennon got in the music business after his five-year break. It can also be seen as a sister project, since the presentation of the plate (cover, song arrangement, alternating between Lennon and Ono's song) similar to that of Double Fantasy. Yoko Ono took after the death of John Lennon three years in order to the album start to work again.
Milk and Honey Home includes two demos ( Grow Old With Me ( Lennon) and Let Me Count the Ways ( Ono ) ) as well as three tracks from Yoko Ono ( Sleepless Night, Your Hands and You're the One ), which after the death of John Lennon has been recorded, so that only seven of the original title of the album " Double Fantasy / Milk and Honey " - recording session date ( songs of John Lennon: I'm Stepping Out, I Do not Wanna Face It, Nobody Told Me, Borrowed Time and ( Forgive Me ) My Little Flower Princess; songs by Yoko Ono: Do not Be Scared and O'Sanity ). Although the music producer Jack Douglas was involved in the production of these seven titles, he is not mentioned as a co-producer. The CD reissue from 2001 contains still sung among others, the Yoko Ono Every Man Has a composition Woman Who Loves Him by John Lennon; this song comes from the tribute LP Every Man Has a Woman for Yoko Ono, which was released in September 1984. The completion of the title in July 1984 in which the harmony vocals of John Lennon has been used as the main vocals.
After disagreements with David Geffen Yoko Ono moved to Polydor, so Milk and Honey was released on this label. After the expiry of the record contract with Polydor the publishing rights to the recordings of John Lennon went back to the EMI Group.
Cover
The cover photos were taken during the same recording session as that of Double Fantasy. The cover of Milk and Honey, however, appeared in color.
Title list
Page 1
Page 2
Bonus title
Publication
Other songs from the recording sessions were on the John Lennon Anthology box set in November 1998; and published on the bonus CD Home Tapes Signature Box ( October 2010).
In the U.S., the album came eleventh in the UK and # 3 on the charts in Germany the album reached number 20 of the charts.
The first released in CD format in January 1984 to the Polydor label; in October 1990, a publication of Capitol Records. In September 2001, the album in a remastered, but not remixed version was, with three bonus tracks and an interview that was taken five hours before John Lennon's death, re-released. In October 2010, the album was remastered again in a version in which the original mix and without bonus tracks, re-released.
In the UK, a limited edition picture disc LP was published on 26 March 1984.
Single releases
Nobody Told Me
Three singles were released from the album. In advance of the album was released on 9 January 1984, the single Nobody Told Me / O'Sanity.
Borrowed Time
On March 9, 1984, released as the second single Borrowed Time / Your Hands. In the UK, the 12 " vinyl maxi single was released: Borrowed Time / Your Hands / Never say goodbye, the song Never Say Goodbye by the ( I See Rainbows ) comes Yoko Ono album It's Alright.
I'm Stepping Out
On July 16, 1984 I'm Stepping Out / Sleepless Night was released as the third single. In the U.S. the latter two singles were released in the reverse order. In the UK, the 12 " vinyl maxi single was released: I'm Stepping Out / Sleepless Night / Loneliness, the song Loneliness ( I See Rainbows ) comes also from the Yoko Ono album It's Alright.
Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
On November 19, 1984, the title Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him was released as a single, which was recorded during the sessions for the album Double Fantasy, but did not appear on the LP.