“Clean Up Time” by John Lennon

"Clean Up Time" is one of John Lennon's songs on Double Fantasy, the album he made with Yoko Ono and released on Geffen in November 1980, the record that ended the five years he'd spent away from music raising his son Sean. Lennon wrote it alone and sings lead, and he co-produced with Ono and Jack Douglas, with Lee DeCarlo engineering, in sessions at the Hit Factory in New York that ran from August into October.

The album trades off between his songs and hers, a conversation carried across the tracklist, and it was the last album he released: he was murdered three weeks after it came out. Critics were cool on it at first, but in the decades since, Lennon's songs from those sessions have come to be counted among his finest.

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