Mind Games is John Lennon's fourth post-Beatles album, and was recorded and released in 1973. Like his previous album, the politically topical and somewhat abrasive Some Time in New York City, Mind Games was poorly received by music critics. It reached No. 13 in the UK and No. 9 in the US, where it went gold.
The album was recorded at the beginning of Lennon's 18-month separation from Yoko Ono.
In mid-1973, as Yoko Ono was completing her fourth a...
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Mind Games is John Lennon's fourth post-Beatles album, and was recorded and released in 1973. Like his previous album, the politically topical and somewhat abrasive Some Time in New York City, Mind Games was poorly received by music critics. It reached No. 13 in the UK and No. 9 in the US, where it went gold.
The album was recorded at the beginning of Lennon's 18-month separation from Yoko Ono.
In mid-1973, as Yoko Ono was completing her fourth album, Feeling the Space, Lennon decided he also wanted to record a new album. He liked the musicians assembled for Ono's album by their assistant and production coordinator, May Pang, and he asked Pang to book them for his sessions. Lennon then quickly wrote the songs for Mind Games.
Just as the sessions were to get underway in June at New York's Record Plant Studios, the Lennons separated. With Ono's approval, Pang would become Lennon's companion and lover in what would become an 18-month relationship known as Lennon's 'lost weekend'. Lennon...
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