Mind Games by John Lennon

Mind Games, John Lennon's third solo studio album, was cut at the Record Plant in New York in the summer of 1973 and hit American shops on 29 October, and for the first time he produced a record himself without Phil Spector's help. After the placard-waving, sometimes grating Some Time in New York City, this one comes on softer and more melodic, even as the outside world pressed in: he was tangled up with US immigration, and he and Yoko Ono were just starting an 18-month separation.

The shimmering title track went out as a single alongside the album. Reviews were mixed, but it reached number 9 in the US and 13 in the UK, went gold on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been reissued time and again; in 2024 it got the full super deluxe box treatment, expanded well beyond the original.

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