Double Fantasy

Double Fantasy
Studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Released	17 November 1980 (1980-11-17)
Recorded	7 August – 19 October 1980
Studio	The Hit Factory, New York
Genre	Soft rock new wave
Length	45:01
Label	Geffen Warner Bros.
Producer	John Lennon Yoko Ono Jack Douglas
John Lennon chronology
Shaved Fish (1975) Double Fantasy (1980) The John Lennon Collection (1982)
Yoko Ono chronology
Feeling the Space (1973) Double Fantasy (1980) Season of Glass (1981)
Singles from Double Fantasy
"(Just Like) Starting Over" Released: 23 October 1980 "Woman" Released: 12 January 1981 "Watching the Wheels" Released: 13 March 1981
Double Fantasy Stripped Down
Cover of the 2010 remix with stripped down production.

Double Fantasy is the fifth studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and the final one before Lennon's death. Released in November 1980 on Geffen Records, the album marked Lennon's return to recording music full-time, following his five-year hiatus to raise his son Sean. Recording sessions took place at the Hit Factory in New York City between August and October 1980. The final album features songs from both Lennon and Ono, largely alternating between the two in its track listing. Other tracks recorded by Lennon from the sessions were compiled by Ono for release on Milk and Honey in 1984.

Upon its release, the album stalled on music charts and received largely negative reviews from music critics,^[1][2] with many focusing on the album's idealisation of Lennon and Ono's marriage. However, following Lennon's murder three weeks after its release, it became a worldwide commercial success and went on to win the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.^[3] In subsequent decades, the album has been viewed favourably, with Lennon's songs in particular garnering praise as some of his finest.

In 2010, Ono and Douglas released a remix of the album, titled Double Fantasy Stripped Down, which featured less lavish production than the original.