Walls and Bridges by John Lennon

Walls and Bridges, John Lennon's fourth solo studio album, came out on Apple on 26 September 1974 in America, with Britain getting it on 4 October. It's a dispatch from deep inside his "Lost Weekend": written, cut and released during the 18-month split from Yoko Ono, with Lennon producing himself at the Record Plant in the same stretch that saw him produce Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats.

You can hear a man both carousing and brooding. "Whatever Gets You thru the Night", his romp with Elton John, gave him his first American number one as a solo act and turned out to be the only solo chart-topper he'd see in the US or Britain while he lived, and "#9 Dream" drifts off into a hazy reverie. The album went to number one on both the Billboard and Record World charts, and it stands as the last record of his own songs issued under his name alone in his lifetime.

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